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UNINA9910784105703321 |
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Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors |
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Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cultural politics ; ; v. 13 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TaylorPeter J. <1955-> |
HalfonSaul E |
EdwardsPaul N |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Life sciences - Social aspects |
Life sciences - Political aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction: Changing Life in the New World Dis/Order; The Terminator Meets Commander Data: Cyborg Identity in the New World Order; Bodies of Knowledge: Biology and the Intercultural University; Genetic Engineering, Discourses of Deficiency, and the New Politics of Population; Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization: Foresting Gambian Gardens; Discipline or Solidarity? Ecology as Politics; Overpopulating the World: Notes toward a Discursive Reading |
How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? Undifferentiated Science-Politics and Its Potential ReconstructionDo Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?; Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan; Afterword: Shifting Positions for Knowing and Intervening in the Cultural Politics of the Life Sciences; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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