Designing Human Practices: An Experiment with Synthetic Biology

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Your rating has been recorded. Write a review Rate this item: Preview this item Preview this item. Paul Rabinow ; Gaymon Bennett Publisher: English View all editions and formats Summary: In anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center--a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of new enzymes, genetic circuits, cells, and other biological entities--to formulate a new approach to the ethical, security, and philosophical considerations of controversial biological work.

They sought not simply to act as watchdogs but to integrate the biosciences with their own discipline in a more fundamentally interdependent way, inventing a new, dynamic, and experimental anthropology that they could bring to bear on the center's biological research. Designing Human Practices is a detailed account of this anthropological experiment and, ultimately, its rejection.

It provides new insights into the possibilities and limitations of collaboration, and diagnoses the micro-politics which effectively constrained the potential for mutual scientific flourishing. Analyzing these endeavors alongside his efforts to apply an anthropological lens to the natural sciences, Rabinow lays the foundation for an ethically grounded anthropology ready and able to face the challenges of our contemporary world.

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Transforming the practice and potential of molecular biology, PCR extends scientists' ability to identify and manipulate genetic materials and accurately reproduces millions of copies of a given segment in a short period of time. It makes abundant what was once scarce—the genetic material required for experimentation. Making PCR explores the culture of biotechnology as it emerged at Certus Corporation during the s and focuses on its distinctive configuration of scientific, technical, social, economic, political, and legal elements, each of which had its own separate trajectory over the preceding decade.

The book contains interviews with the remarkable cast of characters who made PCR, including Kary Mullin, the maverick who received the Nobel prize for "discovering" it, as well as the team of young scientists and the company's business leaders. This book shows how a contingently assembled practice emerged, composed of distinctive subjects, the site where they worked, and the object they invented. A Story of Biotechnology [and] teases out every possible detail.

Makes for an intriguing read that raises many questions about our understanding of the twisting process of discovery itself. Rabinow describes a dance: With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign but still illogical Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers.

Language English View all editions Prev Next edition 2 of 2. Check copyright status Cite this Title Designing human practices: Author Rabinow, Paul, author. Other Authors Bennett, Gaymon, , author. Synthetic biology -- Research -- United States.

Designing human practices : an experiment with synthetic biology

Synthetic biology -- Moral and ethical aspects. Principles of design, Interfacing the human and biosciences Recapitulation and reorientation The second wave of synthetic biology A mode 3 experiment. Toward the second wave of human practices Includes bibliographical references pages and index.