Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age

by Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014939
• ISBN13: 9780262014939
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher