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On Beyond Living - Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Paperback) Loot Price: R684
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On Beyond Living - Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Paperback): Richard Doyle

On Beyond Living - Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences (Paperback)

Richard Doyle

Series: Writing Science

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What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares." Metaphors such as the genetic "code" made possible a transformation of the very concept of life, a transformation that often casts organisms as information systems.
With careful readings of key texts from the history of molecular biology--such as those of Erwin Schrodinger, George Gamow, Jacques Monod, and Francois Jacob--the author maps out the complex relations between the practices of rhetoric and the technoscientific triumphs they accompanied, triumphs that bolstered a "postvital" biology that increasingly elides and questions the boundary between organisms and machines.
There have been many popular books, and a few academic ones, on the Human Genome Initiatives. "On Beyond Living" is a genealogy of these initiatives, a map of how we have come to equate human beings with "information." Melding contemporary theory with scientific discourse, it is certain to provoke discussion (and controversy) in the fields of cultural studies, theory, and science with its penetrating inquiries into the relations between rhetoric and technoscience.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Writing Science
Release date: July 1997
First published: 1997
Authors: Richard Doyle
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2765-5
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General
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LSN: 0-8047-2765-1
Barcode: 9780804727655

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