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Synthetic : how life got made
- Title
- Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
- Author
- Roosth, Sophia
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- vi, 251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: A note on method.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3948
- ISBN
- 9780226440323
- 022644032X
- 9780226440460
- 022644046X
- LCCN
- 2016027488
- OCLC
- 952139113
- Author
- Roosth, Sophia, author.
- Title
- Synthetic : how life got made / Sophia Roosth.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3948