Death of Life The Legacy of Molecular Biology

Klappentext The Death of Life dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation, experiment and theory are exposed as the skeleton of ideas for controlling life, ideas which were only fleshed out by the biotech and genomic industries. Physicists- and chemists-turned biologists in alliance with biology's own eugenicists are shown to have abandoned the study of life and suppressed poststructuralist approaches ranging from neoLamarckism to biogeological/Gaia theory. Zusammenfassung The Death of Life dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation, experiment and theory are exposed as the skeleton of ideas for controlling life, ideas which were only fleshed out by the biotech and genomic industries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface - Biology is Ill - Before the Ball - Biology Goes to the Ball - Biology's Mid-Life Crisis - The Road(s) Not Taken: From Lamarck to Lovelock - La Mort de Cendrillon and Her Last Will and Testament - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stanley Shostak
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.01.2014
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9781349137046
• ISBN: 978-1-349-13704-6
• Anzahl Seiten: 288
• Serie: Language, Discourse, Society; Language, Discourse, Society; Language, Discourse, Society (
• Themen: Biochemie; Science; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biochemistry; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects