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Trading the genome [electronic resource] : investigating the commodification of bio-information / Bronwyn Parry

Author
Parry, Bronwyn
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Physical Description
xxi, 319 p. : ill
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Contents
Introduction -- The collection of nature and the nature of collecting -- Speedup: accelerating the social and spatial dynamics of collecting -- New collectors, new collections -- The fate of the collections -- Taming the slippery beast: regulating trade in bio-information -- Back to the future.
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ISBN
9780231121743 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231121741 (cloth : alk. paper)
Note
Rev. ed. of author's Ph.D. thesis entitled The fate of the collections (University of Cambridge, 1998).
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-308) and index.
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