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.