1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454908303321

Autore

Herring Mark Youngblood <1952->

Titolo

Genetic engineering [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Y. Herring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-41787-8

9786612417870

0-313-06037-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Historical guides to controversial issues in America, , 1541-0021

Disciplina

660.6/5

Soggetti

Genetic engineering

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216).

Nota di contenuto

"It's alive!": public perceptions of genetic engineering -- History of genetic engineering from Mendel to (genome) maps -- Splicing, dicing, and cloning to Asilomar and beyond -- Frankenfood or Miracle-gro? agriculture applications of genetic engineering -- Well, hello, Dolly: animal applications of genetic engineering -- Where no man (or woman) has gone before: the Human Genome Project -- The doctor will see you now: genetic engineering and the treatment of diseases -- Just the facts, ma'am: genetic engineering, DNA evidence, and the courts -- Endgame: genetic engineering, future trends, current recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

A guide to the genetic engineering debate, discussing pro and con arguments regarding cloning, gene splicing, so-called Frankenfood and more.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457650603321

Titolo

The ethnic canon [[electronic resource] ] : histories, institutions, and interventions / / David Palumbo-Liu, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press, c1995

ISBN

0-8166-8630-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Palumbo-LiuDavid

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Minorities in literature

Canon (Literature)

Electronic books.

America Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Instituting Minor Literatures; ""Border"" Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color; Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Contradictions for Asian American Studies; PART TWO: The Construction of the Ethnic; The Borders of Modernity: Américo Paredes's Between Two Worlds and the Chicano National Subject; Telling the différance: Representations of Identity in the Discourse of Indianness

The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Dialogic Criticism and African American LiteratureTropology of Hunger: The ""Miseducation"" of Richard Rodriguez; Calculated Musings: Richard Rodríguez's Metaphysics of Difference; ""Sugar Sisterhood"": Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon; PART THREE: The Ethnic, the Nation, and the Canon; In Search of Filipino Writing: Reclaiming Whose ""America""?; A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers

M. Butterfly and the Rhetoric of Antiessentialism: Minority Discourse in



an International FrameContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Argues that texts are added to the canon only after an operation that attempts to resolve and neutralize historical and political contradictions and differences. The Ethnic Canon offers a wide variety of critical viewpoints and is unique in its pointed critique of the academy regarding specific authors and texts that have and have not been included in the canon.