Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities
By (Author) Peter J. Taylor
Contributions by Saul E. Halfon
Contributions by Paul N. Edwards
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st September 1997
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Biology, life sciences
Anthropology
Impact of science and technology on society
Biotechnology
570
Paperback
240
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 15mm
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, depending on where we stand. This text 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.