Resurrecting the sublime / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. Knowing and controlling / Christian H. Ross -- A tale of two rats / Anita Guerrini -- Cloning as rooting / Tiago Saraiva -- Harvesting hogzillas / Abraham Gibson -- Design and narrative in DNA analysis and synthesis / Dominic J. Berry -- Behavioral engineering and problems of animal misbehavior / Edmund Ramsden -- Engineering spaces for the biological effects of fission / Joshua McGuffie -- A matter of taste / Lisa Onaga -- Cybernetics without the cyborg / Richard Fadok -- Strains of Andromeda / Luis A. Campos -- Engineering human nature in the Genome Age / Nathaniel Comfort -- Engineering uplift / Ayah Nuriddin -- Terraforming planets, geoengineering earth / James Rodger Fleming -- Resurrecting the sublime / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Summary:
"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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Convening science: discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
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