Biotechnology

Popular and semi-popular views. And information. And environmentalism. And the rainforests. And the university-industrial complex. Military involvement and uses.

Particular biotechologies: Biological computers, directed molecular evolution, recombinant DNA, prostheses and other sorts of biomedical engineering.

Massimiano Bucchi and Federico Neresini, "Why Are People Hostile to Biotechnologies?", Science 304 (2004): 1749 [Italian survey data]
Peter Medawar, Fear and DNA
Robert Teitelman, Gene Dreams: Wall Street, Academia, and the Rise of Biotechnology

Bauer (ed.), Resistance to New Technology: Nuclear Power, Information Technology, Biotechnology
Robert Bud, The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology [Blurb]
John Elkington, Double Dividends: US Biotechnology and Third World Development
Drew Endy, "Foundations for engineering biology", Nature 438 (2005): 449--453
Janet Hope, Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology [blurb]
Walter V. Reid, Sarah A. Laird, Carrie A. Meyer, Rodrigo Gamez, Ana Sittenfeld and Daniel H. Janzen, Biodiversity Prospecting: Using Genetic Resources for Sustainable Development
Rollin, The Frankenstein Syndrome: Ethical and Social Issues in the Genetic Engineering of Animals [Rollin is a professor of philosophy, physiology and biophysics, so this is likely to be unusually well-informed.]
Namatié Traoré, "Networks and Rapid Technological Change: Novel Evidence from the Canadian Biotech Industry", Industry and Innovation 13 (2006): 41--68

Notebooks

Biotechnology