Can Science Make Sense of Life?

by Sheila Jasanoff

Book Overview

Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science's growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are poised to edit, even rewrite, the texts of life to correct nature's mistakes.

Yet, how far should the capacity to manipulate what life is at the molecular level authorize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509522719
• ISBN13: 9781509522712
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"