A simpler life : synthetic biological experiments / Talia Dan-Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dan-Cohen, Talia, 1982- author.

Series:

Expertise. Cultures and technologies of knowledge.

Cornell scholarship online.

Expertise. Cultures and technologies of knowledge

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Synthetic biology--Methodology.

Synthetic biology.

Synthetic biology--Research--Philosophy.

Scientists--Social conditions.

Scientists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This text approaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University. It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the more plodding and entrenched aspects of academic research. The book follows practitioners as they wrestle with experiments, attempt to publish research findings, and navigate the ins and outs of academic careers. It foregrounds the practices and rationalities of these pursuits that give both researchers' lives and synthetic life their distinctive contemporary forms.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Labs, Lives, Technoscience

Chapter 2 The Virtues of the Naïve View

Chapter 3 Looking for Patterns

Chapter 4 To the Editor

Chapter 5 On the Move

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501753466

1501753460

9781501753459

1501753452

OCLC:

1243305101