03075nam 2200637Ia 450 991078410570332120230403152220.00-8166-8846-X(CKB)1000000000347008(EBL)310403(OCoLC)476094355(SSID)ssj0000119863(PQKBManifestationID)11145553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119863(PQKBWorkID)10073522(PQKB)10324488(MiAaPQ)EBC310403(OCoLC)232159963(MdBmJHUP)muse38891(Au-PeEL)EBL310403(CaPaEBR)ebr10159669(CaONFJC)MIL522429(EXLCZ)99100000000034700819970402d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChanging life[electronic resource] genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities /Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editorsMinneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Pressc19971 online resource (237 p.)Cultural politics ;v. 13Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3013-5 0-8166-3012-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ReadingHow 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; IndexDrawn 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.Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;v. 13.Life sciencesSocial aspectsLife sciencesPolitical aspectsLife sciencesSocial aspects.Life sciencesPolitical aspects.570/.1Taylor Peter J.1955-1530711Halfon Saul E1530712Edwards Paul N884488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784105703321Changing life3775951UNINA