Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors
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| Titolo: |
Changing life [[electronic resource] ] : genomes, ecologies, bodies, commodities / / Peter J. Taylor, Saul E. Halfon, Paul N. Edwards, editors
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| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
TaylorPeter J. <1955->
HalfonSaul E
EdwardsPaul N
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| 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.: | 9910457403603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; ; v. 13.