Naked genes
reinventing the human in the molecular age
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Author
Contributions
- Testa, Giuseppe - Contributor
Publication
2011 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenakedgenesreinve0000nowo
- Internet Archivenakedgenesreinve0000nowo_l3j7
- ISBN-139780262014939
- ISBN-100262014939
- Library of Congress Control Number2010017756
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number613293446
- Better World Books9780262014939
- Open LibraryOL24566712M
Classifications
- DDC303.48/3
- LCCQH506 .N6913 2011
- LCCQH506.N6913 2011
and 1 more
- LCCQH506 .N6913 2010
Description
The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled into new forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocks of synthetic biology. Extracted from their scientific and social contexts, these new entities become not only visible but indeed naked: ready to assume an essential status of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass from labs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. Examines the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences and equally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. From publisher description.
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