Pete Shanks
Pete Shanks, MA, attended Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and moved to California in the mid-1970s. He has been active in a range of local and international political movements, while mostly making his living in the publishing industry, especially on the production side; he enjoys the craft of bookmaking. Appalled by the eugenic possibilities of biotechnology, he has consulted with the Center for Genetics and Society since its earliest days. He is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books) and a regular contributor to Biopolitical Times.
Biopolitical Times
A Star is Born
On July 5, 1996, the most famous individual sheep in history was born: Dolly, the first...
Six years ago, the question of who, if anyone, could patent a human gene was (we thought) settled by the...
The problems with this book by Jamie Metzl begin with the title, which name-checks one of the most famous scientists...