A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments
Talia Dan-Cohen, "A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments "
English | ISBN: 1501753444 | 2021 | 174 pages | EPUB | 428 KB
English | ISBN: 1501753444 | 2021 | 174 pages | EPUB | 428 KB
A Simpler Lifeapproaches the developing field of synthetic biology by focusing on the experimental and institutional lives of practitioners in two labs at Princeton University. It highlights the distance between hyped technoscience and the more plodding and entrenched aspects of academic research.
Talia Dan-Cohen follows practitioners as they wrestle with experiments, attempt to publish research findings, and navigate the ins and outs of academic careers. Dan-Cohen foregrounds the practices and rationalities of these pursuits that give both researchers' lives and synthetic life their distinctive contemporary forms. Rather than draw attention to avowed methodology,
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