Esha Shah

Who is the Scientist-Subject? (eBook, PDF)

Affective History of the Gene

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It will be of major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history and philosophy alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429953187
• Artikelnr.: 56841036

Autorenporträt

Esha Shah is an environmental engineer by training and a social anthropologist, historian, and philosopher of science and technology by professional choice. She is Assistant Professor with the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Her research interests so far have broadly concerned the history and anthropology of technology-led development in India on the divide of modernity and democracy. With this book, her research interests have expanded to philosophy of subjectivity and its relation to modes of rationality, including objectivity in science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Affective History of the Gene 2. Who is the Scientist
Subject? A Critique of the Neo
Kantian Scientist
Subject in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's Objectivity 3. Immortality Ideologies and the Particulate Gene: H. J. Muller 4. What is Life? Placed in Erwin Schrodinger's Life 5. The Myth and Truth of Barbara McClintock 6. Rosalind Franklin and her Science
in
the
making: A Situated, Sexual and Existential Portrait 7. The Ultra
Contemporary Self and Hyper
Reductionism of Human Genome Science: Craig Venter 8. Conclusion