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Science 5 November 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5442, pp. 1095 - 1096
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5442.1095
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
A Genetic Code Napoléon?

A review by Wilhelm Ansorge

French DNA Trouble in Purgatory
Paul Rabinow
University of Chicago, Chicago, 1999. 209 pp. $25, £17.50. ISBN 0-226-70150-6.

Rabinow provides an anthropologist's account of the complex interactions among genomics, bioethics, patients groups, venture capital, nationalism, and governments that doomed a proposed Franco-American collaboration to identify diabetes genes.
The author is coordinator of the Biochemical Instrumentation Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany. E-mail: Wilhelm.Ansorge{at}EMBL-Heidelberg.de

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)