Synthetic : how life got made /
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| Author / Creator: | Roosth, Sophia, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017] |
| Description: | vi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11002800 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction analysis: synthesis
- Interlude 1: Plastic fantastic
- Life by design: evolution and creation tales in synthetic biology
- Interlude 2: from still life to more intense life
- The synthetic kingdom: transgenic kinship in the postgenomic era
- Interlude 3: To make an eye, a hair, a leaf
- The rebirth of the author: new life in legal and economic circuits
- Interlude 4: much more than human
- Biotechnical agnosticism: fragmented life and labor among the machines
- Interlude 5: what comes before
- Life makes itself at home: the rise of biohacking as political action
- Interlude 6: life embryonic and prophetic
- Latter-day Lazarus: biological salvage and species revival.