French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

by PaulRabinow (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $7.77

  This story involves nations, commerce, patients and genetics, and seeks to uncover the tangled relations and conceptions that govern modern medical research. The book is about international competition, the future of human health, financial conflict and the intersection of culture and science.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $33.71

  Can a country claim to have its own genetic material? Rabinow demonstrates that the answer to this question is far from simple. The work is cross-disciplinary, marrying news events, science and philosophical analysis to see how past events influenced current thinking.