by Paul Rabinow · University of Chicago Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780226701509
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«French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory» is the anthropological essay by Paul Rabinow, published by University of Chicago Press in hardcover (208 pages, in English).
In 1993, the company Millennium Pharmaceuticals and the French laboratory CEPH planned to search for diabetes genes. The French government blocked the agreement and prevented CEPH from delivering DNA from French families: French DNA, for the first time treated as a commodity. The book analyzes the scientific, political and ethical implications of the case.
The book was published in October 1999. Paul Rabinow was a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Aimed at university students, researchers and professionals in anthropology, the history of science and bioethics.
