THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ITS DEFINITION

Authors

  • JOSÉ DE SOUSA SILVA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35977/0104-1096.cct1990.v7.9122

Abstract

Due to the impossibility of a consensual definition for biotechnology, which is attained to the complexity of agreement within diverse interests, a revision of the concept is made on the basis of dictionaries, experts and institutions. The "old" biotechnology is reported and the "old" and "new" biotechnologies are discerned; afterwards, the battle performed by partners in order to stablish a biotechnology definition is analysed. Which definition will be the best? The disagreement of interests built in the controversy raises only a small part of an iceberg of deeper economical and political contradictions - existing and potential - related to the so called biorevolution.

Author Biography

  • JOSÉ DE SOUSA SILVA
    Ph.D. em Sociologia pela University of Kentucky, E.U.A. EMBRAPA-SEA, Parque Rural, SAIN, Brasília, DF.

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Published

1990-01-01

Issue

Vol. 07,n.1/3 - jan./dez.,(1990)

Section

Ensaios

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How to Cite

SILVA, J. D. S. (1990). THE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ITS DEFINITION. Science & Technology Journals, 7(1/3), 99-112. https://doi.org/10.35977/0104-1096.cct1990.v7.9122