Nature Remade - Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

"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."--

About the author

Luis A. Campos is the Baker College Chair of the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Rice University. He is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Michael R. Dietrich is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently, he is coeditor of Dreamers, Visionaries and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tiago Saraiva is associate professor of history at Drexel University. He is the author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism. Christian C. Young is professor of biology at Alverno College. Most recently, he is coeditor of Evolution and Creationism: A Documentary and Reference Guide.

Product details

• Authors: Luis a Dietrich Campos, Luis A. Campos, Luis A. Dietrich Campos
• Assisted by: Luis A Campos (Editor), Luis A. Campos (Editor), Campos Luis A. (Editor), Michael R Dietrich (Editor), Michael R. Dietrich (Editor), Dietrich Michael R. (Editor), Tiago Saraiva (Editor), Saraiva Tiago (Editor), Christian Young (Editor), Christian C Young (Editor), Christian C. Young (Editor), Young Christian C. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9780226783437
• ISBN: 978-0-226-78343-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Labora; Convening Science: Discovery a; Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences