Download or read book French DNA written by Paul Rabinow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from sharing something never previously thought of as a commodity unto itself: French DNA.