1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003962839707536

Autore

Ovidius Naso, Publius

Titolo

Ovid's Heroides / Howard Jacobson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1974

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 437 p. ; 25 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Jacobson, Howardauthor

Soggetti

Ovidio Nasone, Publio - Heroides - Traduzioni

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliografia: p. 410-417.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973362203321

Autore

Friese Carrie

Titolo

Cloning wild life : zoos, captivity, and the future of endangered animals / / Carrie Friese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8147-2909-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Biopolitics : medicine, technoscience, and heatlh in the 21st century

Classificazione

SOC026000TEC003000

Disciplina

571.9/646

Soggetti

Cloning

Endangered species

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

Debating cloning -- Making animals -- Transpositions -- Reproducing populations -- Genetic values -- Knowing endangered species -- Biodiversities -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of



new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues, significantly affect our conceptualizations of and engagements with wildlife and nature. By studying animals at different locations, Friese explores the human practices surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits zoos—the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London—to see cloning and related practices in action, as well as attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of recalibrating nature through science is what most disturbs us about cloning animals in captivity, revealing that debates over cloning become, in the end, a site of political struggle between different human groups. Moreover, Friese explores the implications of the social role that animals at the zoo play in the first place—how they are viewed, consumed, and used by humans for our own needs. A unique study uniting sociology and the study of science and technology, Cloning Wild Life demonstrates just how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about the meaning of life itself.