| Death of Life: The Legacy of Molecular Biology 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Shostak, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349137049 ISBN-13: 9781349137046 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Science | Life Sciences - Biochemistry |
| Dewey: 570 |
| Series: Language, Discourse, Society (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.82 lbs) 275 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |