Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry

The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion—dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for—profit biological research. Given such extraordinary stakes, a history of the commercial biotechnology industry must inquire far beyond the predictable attention to scientists, discovery, and corporate sales. It must pursue how something so co...