Introduction -- The collection of nature and the nature of collecting -- Speedup: accelerating the social and spatial dynamics of collecting -- New collectors, new collections -- The fate of the collections -- Taming the slippery beast: regulating trade in bio-information -- Back to the future
Summary
In a groundbreaking work that draws on anthropology, history, philosophy, business and law, Parry links firsthand knowledge of the operation of the bioprospecting industry to a sophisticated analysis of broader economic, regulatory, and technological transformations to reveal the complex economic and political dynamics that underpin the new global trade in bio-information
Notes
Revision of author's PHD thesis entitled The fate of the collections--University of Cambridge, 1998
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index
