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Article: French DNA: trouble in purgatory.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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RABINOW, PAUL. French DNA: trouble in purgatory. viii, 201 pp., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1999. [pound]17.50 (cloth)
In French DNA, Rabinow treats us to a first-hand account of the frantic and at times undignified manoeuvrings that lie behind progress in genome research. The account plots the tensions that arise when the people, organizations, technologies, knowledge, and substances (blood and DNA) which constitute the field of modern genomics become the object of both transnational commerce and national interest. Rabinow argues that advances in human genomics have created a profound uncertainty about the ways in which capital, science, and ...