The recombinant university : genetic engineering and the emergence of Stanford biotechnology / Doogab Yi.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

xi, 318 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communal form of DNA research -- "Mass migration" and technologies of gene manipulation -- System of exchange in recombinant DNA research -- Moral and capitalistic economies of gene cloning -- Who owns what : private ownership and public interest in recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s -- Reenvisioning the biomedical enterprise in the age of commercial biotechnology.