Trading the Genome: Investigating the Commodification of Bio-Information

Bronwyn Parry

October, 2004
Cloth, 352 pages, 23 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12174-3
$47.50 / £28.00

"Parry has a clear, incisive style...making Trading the Genome a forceful, considered and thought-provoking analysis of one of the most important issues of our time." — Adrian Barnett, New Scientist

"Trading the Genome is strongly recommended as an eye-opener to the practices of the modern pharmaceutical industry." — Naturalist

"This book is a welcome addition to the literature and will be a valuable resource...Well worth the read." — Brendan Tobin, Nature

"One of Parry's major contributions is to open this rather closed world to scrutiny." — Felix Driver, Jouranl of Historical Geography

"Maintaining a dogged grip on some very important and heretofore-unasked empirical questions, Parry leads us into ground on which it is easy to feel that no critical eye has yet gazed." — Morgan M. Robertson, Progress in Human Geography

"Parry takes a highly complex field and makes it easily accessible through her clear and incisive style." — Gerard Porter, Social & Legal Studies

Related Subjects

• Biology
• Conservation

About the Author

Bronwyn Parry is an economic and cultural geographer who holds a senior research fellowship at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Her current research focuses on the creation and use of human tissue collections in the UK.

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