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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe SCIENCE, SEEDS AND CYBORGS: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE APPROPRIATION OF LIFE * _Finn Bowring_ Verso, 2003 338 pp. hardcover, $27 ISBN
1-85984-687-4 | ISBN: 1-85984-687-4 In _Science, Seeds and Cyborgs_, author Finn Bowring gives us a polemic against many possible uses of molecular reproduction, including genetic
engineering of plants and animals, cloning of animals and humans and the use of genetic testing for an array of screening purposes. The range of issues covered is so extensive that
discussion of each specific topic is often at best a proposal for an argument or a gesture to existing literature, rather than a critique with enough detail to warrant evaluation or
response. Although seeds are mentioned prominently in the title, for example, the book devotes only 26 pages to plant biotechnology, and attempts to cover allergenic risks, use of antibiotic
markers, invasiveness, nontarget organisms, introgression, farmer dependence on chemicals and methodological issues in ecological risk assessment in those pages. This is a preview of
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Philosophy at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA Paul B Thompson Authors * Paul B Thompson View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google
Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Thompson, P. Against LEGO biology. _Nat Biotechnol_ 21, 987–988 (2003).
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