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Biology Unmoored Melanesian Reflections On Life & Biotechnology
Paperback Edition: 1/2007
Biology Unmoored is an examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological
reproduction is not perceived to ground human kinship or human beings' relationship to the organic world. Bamford also exposes the ways in which Western ideas about relatedness do depend on a notion of physiological reproduction. Her innovative analysis includes a discussion of the advent of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), the mapping of the human genome, cloning, the commodification of biodiversity, and the manufacture and sale of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
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Pages : 245
Publisher : University of California Press
Publication date : 2007-02-20
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Anthropology/archaeology, Sociology, Indigenous Peoples