This bibliography includes readings that students interested in learning more about bioengineering may find useful, as well as those students interested in learning more about the newest College to be built in Claremont, the Keck Institute, which will probably start construction in 1999. That college will have bioengineering as its main subject, and will be funded in large part by pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations.
 
 

Readings on New Venture College Keck Institute Claremont, CA
 

Grace, Eric S.,   Biotechnology Unzipped:  Promises and Realities,
 1997, Sprague Lib TP248, 15 G72. 1997

Goldburg, Rebecca and Jane Rissler, et al. , Biotechnology's Bitter Harvest: Herbicide -Tolerant
  Crops and the Treat to Sustainable Agriculture, Vienna, VA: National Wildlife Federation,
  1990.

Juma, Celestous, The Gene Hunters: Biotechnoloq-V and the Scramble for Seeds, Princeton
  University Press, 1990.

Kay, Lily E., The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of
  the New Biology, oxford Univ. Pr., 1993.

Kimbrell, Andrew, The Human Body Shop: The Engineering and Marketing of Life, Harper
 Collins, 1993.

Levidow, Les, ed., Science as Politics, Free Association Books, 1986.
Essays showing how political forces shape science and technology, from the Copernican revolution and Darwinism to nuclear politics and the field of the sociology of science.

Lewontin, R.C., Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA, Harper Perennial, 1991.
A Harvard University geneticist, who Stephen J. Gould describes as "the most brilliant scientist I know," argues that science is the religon of the 20th century. Focusing on the study of genetics as a putative panacea to global problems, he demonstrates how dominant social and economic forces in society largely determine what scientists do, and argues for a vision of science which could be used to empower all the people.

Mander, Jerry, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the
  Indian Nations, Sierra Club, 1991.
First section includes important critical discussion of the role of science and technology in society and its relationship to universities.

Martin, Kenneth, Biotechnology: The University Industrial Complex, Yale Univ. Pr.

Nandy, Ashis, ed.,Science, Hegemony, and Violence, 1988.
Collection of important essays on the relationships of science to governmental violence, and the coercive power of science.

Noble, David, The Religion of Technology: the Mythical Foundation of a Modern Obsession, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Readings, Bill, The University in Ruins, Harvard Univ. Pr., 1996. Discussion of the deepening relationship between universities and corporations and the changing function of universities as they are increasingly driven by profit margins. Proposes new way for thinking in the university under these conditions.

 Rissler, Jane and Margaret Mellon, Perils Amidst the Promise: Ecological Risks of Transgenic Crops in a Global Market, Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1993.

Shiva, Vandana, ' Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, South End Press, 1997.
Exploration of implications of biotechnology, genetic engineering, and intellectual property rights for decreasing biodiversity, the destruction of indigenous peoples' cultural and agricultural systems, and increasingly closed character of scientific knowledge exchange.

Soley, Lawrence, Leasing the Ivory Tower, South End Pr., 1995.
An investigative report on corporate research and influence in academic institutions.

Spallo, Pat, Generation Games: of Our Lives, Genetic Engineering and the Future  Temple Univ. Pr., 1992.