1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457403603321

Titolo

Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8846-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Cultural politics ; ; v. 13

Altri autori (Persone)

TaylorPeter J. <1955->

HalfonSaul E

EdwardsPaul N

Disciplina

570/.1

Soggetti

Life sciences - Social aspects

Life sciences - Political aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00138519

Autore

BAMDAD, Mahdi

Titolo

Asar-e tarixi-ye Kalat va Saraxs / Mehdi Bamdad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tehran, : [s.n.], 1344 [1926]

Descrizione fisica

46 p. ; 17 cm

Classificazione

IRA IV

Lingua di pubblicazione

Persiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia