CIAO DATE: 10/04

Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information

Bronwyn Parry

Columbia University Press

August 2004

 

Author Bio

Bronwyn Parry is an economic and cultural geographer who holds a senior research fellowship at King's College, University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on the creation and use of human tissue collections in the UK.

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Preface (PDF, 24 pages, 88.7 KB)

1. Introduction (PDF, 11 pages, 55 KB)

2. The Collection of Nature and the Nature of Collecting

3. Speedup: Accelerating the Social and Spatial Dyanmics of Collecting

4. New Collectors, New Collections

5. The Fate of the Collections

6. Taming the Slippery Beast: Regulating Trade in Bio-Information

7. Back to the Future (PDF, 18 pages, 73.4 KB)

Appendix: Methodology

Notes

Bibliography

Index