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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 570/.1
• Soggetto topico: Life sciences - Social aspects; Life sciences - Political aspects
• Altri autori: TaylorPeter J. <1955-> HalfonSaul E EdwardsPaul N
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing life
• ISBN: 0-8166-8846-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784105703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 13.