Designing human practices : an experiment with synthetic biology /
Author / Creator: | Rabinow, Paul. |
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Imprint: | Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012. |
Description: | viii, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 in UCPress is the trade paperback. |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8853060 |
Summary: | In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center--a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of new enzymes, genetic circuits, cells, and other biological entities--to formulate a new approach to the ethical, security, and philosophical considerations of controversial biological work. They sought not simply to act as watchdogs but to integrate the biosciences with their own discipline in a more fundamentally interdependent way, inventing a new, dynamic, and experimental anthropology that they could bring to bear on the center's biological research. |
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Physical Description: | viii, 203 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226703138 0226703134 9780226703145 0226703142 |