Naked Genes (MIT Press): Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age

The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in modern democracies.
The molecular life sciences are making visible what was once invisible. Yet the more we learn about our own biology, the less we are able to fit this knowledge into an integrated whole. Life is divided into new sub-units and reassembled into new forms: from genes to clones, from embryonic stages to the building-blocks of synthetic biology. Extracted from their scientific and social contexts, these new entities become not only visible but indeed “naked”: ready to assume an essential status of their own and take on multiple values and meanings as they pass from labs to courts, from patent offices to parliaments and back. 
In Naked Genes, leading science scholar Helga Nowotny and molecular biologist Giuseppe Testa examine the interaction between these dramatic advances in the life sciences and equally dramatic political reconfigurations of our societies. Considering topics ranging from assisted reproduction and personalized medicine to genetic sports doping, they reveal both surprising continuities and radical discontinuities between the latest advances in the life sciences and long-standing human traditions.

Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age

Science & Math

Nowotny, Helga

Testa, Giuseppe

Biological Sciences

Mit Pr

Die gläsernen Gene: Die Erfindung des Individuums im molekularen Zeitalter

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

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