My PhD,
"No Natural Home: Placing the Promise of Biopharming", used the example of
pharmaceuticals produced using genetically modified crops to examine the relationship between agricultural and pharmaceutical biotechnologies. It
addressed how ‘biopharming’ becomes associated with medical or ‘red’
biotechnology in three steps. The first is the establishment of biopharming as part of the
promise and potential of pharmaceutical research, and distanced from the
contentious tradition of agricultural development. Secondly, the products of biopharming are equated to those of existing pharmaceutical
production and differentiated from those of agriculture, particularly foods.
Finally, making genetically modified plants medical involves
a reconfiguration of the spaces of both agricultural and pharmaceutical
production.
No Natural Home:Placing the Promise of Biopharming
