Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Biotechnology Unglued -- 1 Introduction: The Impact of Innovations in Biotechnology on Social Cohesion -- 2 The Impact of Agricultural Biotechnology on Social Cohesion -- 3 Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries: Issues of Poverty Alleviation, Food Security, and Sustainable Development -- 4 Legitimation Crisis: Food Safety and Genetically Modified Organisms -- 5 Genetically Modified Foods in Norway: A Consumer Perspective -- 6 Commercializing Iceland: Biotechnology, Culture, and the Information Society -- 7 Biotechnology and Social Control: The Canadian DNA Data Bank -- 8 Biotechnology as Modern Museums of Civilization -- 9 The Production, Diffusion, and Use of Knowledge in Biotechnology: The Discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes -- Contributors -- Index.