We, Other Utopians : Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.routledge.com/We-Other-Utopians-Recombinant-DNA-Genome-Editing-and-Artificial-Life/Slesingerova/p/book/9780367608019" target="_blank" >https://www.routledge.com/We-Other-Utopians-Recombinant-DNA-Genome-Editing-and-Artificial-Life/Slesingerova/p/book/9780367608019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003100577" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003100577</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

We, Other Utopians : Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of life and the body in general, it conceptually and analytically works with various approaches to engineered life and embodiments from the perspective of anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies. Second, it presents an analysis of artificial life, and biotechnological embodiments on concrete technologies – genome editing, recombinant DNA, and biological computing. The book explores the theme of genome editing based on ethnographic research conducted at a biochemical laboratory in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork was carried out from 2017 to 2019, mainly in a lab focusing on DNA damages and genomic risk of complex diseases or genetic vulnerabilities like breast cancer, infertility, and ageing. Recombinant DNA is understood here as the exchange of DNA strands to produce and design new nucleotide sequence arrangements to heal or enhance human bodies and health in the future. The book analyzes various economies of hope, hype, expectations, politics, and poetics of false promises and better or worse predictions from the point of view of sociology, anthropology, and science and technology studies.

Název v anglickém jazyce

We, Other Utopians : Recombinant DNA, Genome Editing, and Artificial Life

Popis výsledku anglicky

We, Other Utopians is the first book to analyze the topics of genome editing/recombinant DNA on the basis of ethnographic research in the post-communist context. The book focuses on the topics of human DNA editing and genome repair on two levels. First, inspired by texts analyzing the concept of life and the body in general, it conceptually and analytically works with various approaches to engineered life and embodiments from the perspective of anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies. Second, it presents an analysis of artificial life, and biotechnological embodiments on concrete technologies – genome editing, recombinant DNA, and biological computing. The book explores the theme of genome editing based on ethnographic research conducted at a biochemical laboratory in the Czech Republic. The fieldwork was carried out from 2017 to 2019, mainly in a lab focusing on DNA damages and genomic risk of complex diseases or genetic vulnerabilities like breast cancer, infertility, and ageing. Recombinant DNA is understood here as the exchange of DNA strands to produce and design new nucleotide sequence arrangements to heal or enhance human bodies and health in the future. The book analyzes various economies of hope, hype, expectations, politics, and poetics of false promises and better or worse predictions from the point of view of sociology, anthropology, and science and technology studies.

Druh

B - Odborná kniha

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

9780367608019

Počet stran knihy

121

Název nakladatele

Routledge, Taylor & Francis

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS knihy

000893711800008