What are the ethical and political implications when the very foundations of life -things of awe and spiritual significance - are translated into products accessible to few people? This book critically analyses this historic recontextualisation. Through mediation - when meaning moves from one text to another, from one discourse to another - biotechnology is transformed into analysable data and into public discourses.

The unique book links biotechnology with media and citizenship.

As with any commodity, biological products have been commodified. Because enormous speculative investment...