The human body shop : the engineering and marketing of life /

The exploits of the new engineers and profiteers of life read more like science fiction than science fact. But fact they are, and frighteningly so. The human body and the other organisms of the earth are rapidly becoming the raw material for a new industrial age - a manufacturing revolution based on...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimbrell, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, California] : HarperSanFrancisco, [1993]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1
005 20241002000000.0
008 900725t19931993cau b 001 0 eng
010 |a  90055774  
016 7 |a 009793285  |2 Uk 
019 |a 59954821 
020 |a 0062505246  |q (alk. paper) 
020 |a 9780062505248  |q (alk. paper) 
020 |a 0005993431  |q (UNCONFIRMED) 
020 |a 9780005993439  |q (UNCONFIRMED) 
035 |a (OCoLC)26672971  |z (OCoLC)59954821 
040 |a DLC  |b eng  |e rda  |c DLC  |d AGL  |d BAKER  |d BTCTA  |d YDXCP  |d UBC  |d UKV3G  |d TEU  |d PSM  |d GBVCP  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d IDU  |d BRL  |d MRM  |d OCLCO  |d UKMGB  |d CPO  |d OCLCO  |d CNO  |d BDP  |d OCLCO  |d HUL  |d S1C  |d CPD  |d OCL  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL  |d OCLCQ 
050 0 0 |a TP248.2  |b .K56 1993 
055 4 |a TP248.2  |b K55 
070 0 |a TP248.2.K56  |b 1993 
072 0 |a X300 
082 0 0 |a 174/.25  |2 20 
084 |a 42.88  |2 bcl 
096 |a TP 248.2 K452 1993 
100 1 |a Kimbrell, Andrew  |e author. 
245 1 4 |a The human body shop :  |b the engineering and marketing of life /  |c Andrew Kimbrell. 
250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a [San Francisco, California] :  |b HarperSanFrancisco,  |c [1993] 
264 4 |c ©1993 
300 |a x, 348 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-336) and index. 
520 |a The exploits of the new engineers and profiteers of life read more like science fiction than science fact. But fact they are, and frighteningly so. The human body and the other organisms of the earth are rapidly becoming the raw material for a new industrial age - a manufacturing revolution based on the manipulation and marketing of life. The escalating price placed on our most intimate possessions - our blood, organs, cells, and genes - along with the increasing ability of biotechnologies to alter the human body, has created a boom market for the human body shop. Using controversial case studies, Andrew Kimbrell exposes an industry based on the cloning of life forms, fetal tissue transplants, genetic engineering, and a host of startling new discoveries and techniques. With recombinant DNA technology it is now possible to transplant, snip, insert, recombine, rearrange, edit, program, and produce genetic and other living material just as our ancestors were able to heat, burn, melt, and solder together various inert materials. Scientists are, in fact, creating new combinations of animate matter just as the machine makers of the past century created new shapes, combinations, and forms of inanimate matter. Whether in the areas of human health and childbearing or in the manipulation of viruses and other microbes, these advances, though extraordinary accomplishments, actually represent a remarkable and insidious invasion of the sanctity of life by the same engineering and marketing imperatives that dictated the direction of the Industrial Age. This extension of the ideologies of efficiency and the market to what is now being called the Age of Biotechnology is among the most disturbing technological, philosophical, and ethical transitions in recorded history. The Human Body Shop lifts the cloak of secrecy and confusion that has long concealed the astounding and shocking experiments involving the manipulation, engineering, and marketing of life forms. Explaining the new techniques in genetic engineering and identifying who is conducting the research and who stands to profit from it, Kimbrell outlines ethical and moral limits to the uses of biotechnology - limits that directly challenge the ideologies of efficiency and the market currently dominating and determining the present course of science and technology. 
505 0 0 |g Foreword /  |r Jeremy Rifkin --  |g pt. 1.  |t Blood and Flesh --  |g 1.  |t Blood Tithes --  |g 2.  |t Transplanting Profits --  |g 3.  |t Harvesting the Unborn --  |g pt. 2.  |t The Baby Factory --  |g 4.  |t The Business of Baby-Making --  |g 5.  |t The Seeds of Life --  |g 6.  |t The Price of Eggs --  |g 7.  |t Embryo Imbroglio --  |g 8.  |t Baby-Selling, Pure and Simple --  |g 9.  |t The Perfect Baby --  |g pt. 3.  |t The Gene Business --  |g 10.  |t Designing Genes --  |g 11.  |t A Discriminating Drug --  |g 12.  |t Engineering Ourselves --  |g 13.  |t The Beast Machines --  |g 14.  |t The Patenting of Life --  |g 15.  |t A Monopoly on Humanity --  |g 16.  |t A Clone Just for You --  |g pt. 4.  |t Closing the Body Shop --  |g 17.  |t Crawling Machines and the Invisible Hand --  |g 18.  |t The Body as Technology --  |g 19.  |t The Human Motor --  |g 20.  |t The Gospel of Greed --  |g 21.  |t Satanic Mills --  |g 22.  |t At the Crossroad --  |g 23.  |t The Body Revolution. 
500 |a APPE gift.  |5 InGrD 
650 0 |a Biotechnology  |x Moral and ethical aspects 
650 0 |a Genetic engineering  |x Moral and ethical aspects 
650 0 |a Biotechnology 
650 0 |a Bioengineering 
650 0 |a Medical ethics 
650 1 2 |a Biotechnology 
650 2 2 |a Ethics, Medical 
650 6 |a Biotechnologie  |x Aspect moral. 
650 6 |a Biotechnologie. 
650 6 |a Éthique médicale. 
650 7 |a bioengineering  |2 aat 
650 7 |a Medical ethics  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Genetic engineering  |x Moral and ethical aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Biotechnology  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Bioengineering  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Biotechnology  |x Moral and ethical aspects  |2 fast 
653 0 |a Biotechnology  |a Moral and ethical aspects 
758 |i has work:  |a The human body shop (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCH6FQCXyW9pkKKg8byxHcq  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 990040158070104270  |s US-MNBEMS  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 9989791975204279  |s US-MNELYV  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 990026904770104301  |s US-MNMANS  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 143079  |s US-MNMANTD  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 990050900260104300  |s US-MNMOHS  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l .b12748936  |s US-MNSP  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 990060790280104315  |s US-MNSTC  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 9982053732201701  |s US-MNU  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 0 |i af044bf2-78d0-4de2-b639-6e473249b6b1  |l 990031422460104302  |s US-MNWOMNW  |m human_body_shopengineering_and_marketing_of_life___________________________1993____1__harpea________________________________________kimbrell__andrew___________________p 
999 1 1 |l 990040158070104270  |s ISIL:US-MNBEMS  |i Bemidji State University  |t BKS  |a GEN02  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30105003216299  |x BOOK  |y 2339627870004270  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 9989791975204279  |s ISIL:US-MNELYV  |i Minnesota North College, Vermilion  |t BKS  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30211000080025  |x BOOK  |y 2317022780004279  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 9989791975204279  |s ISIL:US-MNELYV  |i Minnesota North College, Vermilion  |t BKS  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30216000069183  |x BOOK  |y 2317827830004279  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 990026904770104301  |s ISIL:US-MNMANS  |i Minnesota State University, Mankato  |t BKS  |a GEN  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30101011890688  |x BOOK  |y 2368777810004301  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 143079  |s ISIL:US-MNMANTD  |i Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative  |t BKS  |a AM Stacks  |c TP 248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30619001349381  |x Book  |y 30619001349381  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 990050900260104300  |s ISIL:US-MNMOHS  |i Minnesota State University Moorhead  |t BKS  |a LCNZ  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30104005695451  |x BOOK  |y 2330048280004300  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l .b12748936  |s ISIL:US-MNSP  |i Saint Paul Public Library  |t BKS  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |p UNLOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l .b12748936  |s ISIL:US-MNSP  |i Saint Paul Public Library  |t BKS  |a ci  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 3 2091 01943 8416  |x 0  |y .i15533979  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 990060790280104315  |s ISIL:US-MNSTC  |i Saint Paul College  |t BKS  |a NONFI  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30409000054913  |x BOOK  |y 2313648230004315  |p LOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 9982053732201701  |s ISIL:US-MNU  |i University of Minnesota  |t BKS  |a DUMDUMDBK  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |d LCC  |b 319530012259372  |y 231017217840001701  |p UNLOANABLE 
999 1 1 |l 990031422460104302  |s ISIL:US-MNWOMNW  |i Minnesota West Community & Technical College, Worthington  |t BKS  |a GEN  |c TP248.2 .K56 1993  |b 30218000101891  |x BOOK  |y 2314704670004302  |p LOANABLE