Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities

Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities
ISBN-10
0816630127
ISBN-13
9780816630127
Category
Science
Pages
544
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Authors
Peter J. Taylor, Paul N. Edwards, Saul E. Halfon

Description

In laboratories all over the world, life -- even the idea of life -- is changing. And with these changes, whether they result in square tomatoes or cyborgs, come transformations in our social order -- sometimes welcome, sometimes troubling. Changing Life offers a close look at how the mutable forms and concepts of life link the processes of science to those of information, finance, and commodities. These essays -- about planetary management and genome sequencing, ecologies and cyborgs -- address actual and imagined transformations at the center and at the margins of transnational relations, during the post-Cold War era and in times to come.

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