Nature remade : engineering life, envisioning worlds /: engineering life, envisioning worlds. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, Christian Young.
• Editors: Campos, Luis A; Dietrich, Michael R; Saraiva, Tiago; Young, Christian C
• Contents: Contents Introduction: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young PART 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 Rooting: Cultivating Oranges and the Jewish Settlement of Palestine Tiago Saraiva 4 Harvesting Hogzillas: Feral Pigs and the Engineering Ideal Abraham Gibson PART 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 PART 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 List of Contributors Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 660.6; Bioengineering
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226783574
• Related ISBNs: 9780226783260; 9780226783437
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