Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution. Book Review


Review by Maximilian Fochler


Stephen Hilgartner Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2017


Who controls access to and use of knowledge? Which different entitlements and obligations are connected to specific knowledge and data, even those seemingly openly available to wider constituencies? Who stands to profit from specific kinds of

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