Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge

Lynda Birke, Ruth Hubbard, eds.

ISBN 10: 0253209811 / ISBN 13: 9780253209818

Published by Indiana University Press August 1995, 1995

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Light edgewear, long gift inscription to first page, some underlining, else tight and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge
• Publisher: Indiana University Press August 1995
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253209811
• ISBN 13: 9780253209818
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • 51-SCIENCE

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Synopsis

"Much more than a book about animal welfare, it explores how the scientific questions and answers would be different if biology operated from a paradigm of respect for the objects of study. Thirteen contributions are arranged in four distinct sections; individual topics vary extensively but each is first-rate." ―Choice

"Ruth Hubbard and Lynda Birke have asked an important question: how would the practices of biology change if organisms were considered subjects with agency? They have gathered an array of excellent scholars and a broad spectrum of perspectives.... this is a fresh and important question." ―Londa Schiebinger

Essays explore how the practice of biology could change if scientists treated the organisms they use in their experiments respectfully: what it means to raise animals or plants as experimental resources; what guides decisions about which animals to breed for experimental purposes.

About the Author

LYNDA BIRKE a biologist at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick, is the author of Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge and Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew. RUTH HUBBARD is Professor Emerita of Biology at Harvard University. Her most recent books are The Politics of Women’s Biology, Exploding the Gene Myth (co-authored with Elijah Wald) and Profitable Promises: Essays on Women, Science and Health.