21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009

21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009

If the twentieth century was the century of physics, the twenty-first promises to be the century of biology. This subject examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of biology in the age of genomics, biotechnological enterprise, biodiversity conservation, pharmaceutical bioprospecting...

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Main Author: Helmreich, Stefan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program
Format: Learning Object
Language:en-US
Published: 2009
Subjects:
synthetic biology
genetics
Charles Darwin
evolution
eugenics
bioprospecting
ethics
biodiversity
race
molecular biology
sociology of science
construction of identity
intersex
biotechnology
narratives and metaphors
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90867

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