Nature remade : engineering life, envisioning worlds / edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campos, Luis A., editor.

Dietrich, Michael R., editor.

Saraiva, Tiago, editor.

Young, Christian C., editor.

Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)

Series:

Convening science

Convening science: discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioengineering.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In this fourth volume in our Convening Science series with the Marine Biological Laboratory, contributors, including historians, biologists, and philosophers, explore the development of bioengineering. The essays show how engineering is both a means to a functional end and a method of learning about the world. The book is organized around three themes--controlling and reproducing, knowing and making, and envisioning--to chart the increasing sophistication of our engineering of biological systems and to change our sense of the scales at which engineering occurs, to include not just genetics but also ecosystem-level intervention. The volume will attempt to make the case for "the centrality of engineering for understanding and imagining modern life.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Control

1. Knowing and Controlling: Engineering Ideals and Gene Drive for Invasive Species Control in Aotearoa New Zealand / Christian H. Ross

2. A Tale of Two Rats / Anita Guerrini

3. Cloning as Orientalism: Reproducing Citrus in Mandatory Palestine / Tiago Saraiva

4. Harvesting Hogzillas: Feral Pigs and the Engineering Ideal / Abraham Gibson

pt. 2 Knowing as Making

5. Design and Narrative in the History of DNA Analysis and Synthesis / Dominic J. Berry

6. Behavioral Engineering and the Problems of Animal Misbehavior / Edmund Ramsden

7. Engineering Spaces for the Biological Effects of Fission / Joshua Mcguffie

8. A Matter of Taste: Making Artificial Silkworm Food in Twentieth-Century Japan / Lisa Onaga

9. Cybernetics without the Cyborg: Biological Modernism(s) in Biomimetics and Biomimicry / Richard Fadok

pt. 3 Envisioning

10. Strains of Andromeda: The Cosmic Potential Hazards of Genetic Engineering / Luis A. Campos

11. Engineering Human Nature in the Genome Age: A Long View / Nathaniel Comfort

12. Engineering Uplift Black Eugenics as Black Liberation / Ayah Nuriddin

13. Terraforming Planets, Geoengineering Earth / James Rodger Fleming

14. Resurrecting the Sublime / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226783260

022678326X

9780226783437

022678343X

OCLC:

1200577928