Un ouvrage incontournable  .... 

The uses of life, A history of biotechnology
Robert Bud
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0-521-38240-8 hardback

PLAN

Introduction
1 - The origin of zymotechnology
2 - From zymotechnology to biotechnology
3 - The engineering of nature
4 - Institutional reality
5 - The chemical engineering front
6 - Biotechnology - the green trechnology
7 - From professional to policy category
8 - The wedding with genetics
9 - The 1980s: between life and commerce
Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index