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Changing life : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities /

Drawn from disciplines within science and technology studies and from geography, ecology, and developmental biology, the contributors offer a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Taylor, Peter J., 1955-, Halfon, Saul E., Edwards, Paul N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©1997.
Colección:Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : changing life in the new world dis/order / Paul N. Edwards ... (et al.)
  • The Terminator meets commander data : Cyborg identity in the new world order / Paul N. Edwards
  • Bodies of knowledge : biology and the intercultural university / Scott F. Gilbert
  • Genetic engineering, discourses of deficiency, and the new politics of population / Herbert Gottweis
  • Contradictions along the commodity road to environmental stabilization : foresting Gambian gardens / Richard A. Schroeder
  • Discipline or solidarity? Ecology as politics / Yrjō Haila
  • Overpopulating the world : notes toward a discursive reading / Saul E. Halfon
  • How do we know we have global environmental problems? Undifferentiated science-politics and its potential reconstruction / Peter J. Taylor
  • Do Androids pulverize tiger bones to use as Aphrodisiacs? / Simon A. Cole
  • Bubbles in the cosmic saucepan / Rosaleen Love
  • Afterword : shifting positions for knowing and intervening in the cultural politics of the life sciences / Peter J. Taylor.