Reinventing Biology

by Birke, Lynda I. A.; Hubbard, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780253329097
• ISBN10: 0253329094
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning from the New Priesthood and the Shrieking Sisterhood: Debating the Life Sciences in Victorian England	p. 3
"The Rat Couldn't Speak, But We Can": Inhumanity in Occupational Health Research	p. 21
Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological, and Third World Perspective	p. 50
On Keeping a Respectful Distance	p. 75
The Logos of Life	p. 89
More Than the Sum of Our Parts	p. 103
"Nature is the Human Heart Made Tangible"	p. 121
The Liberation of the Female Rodent	p. 137
They Are Only Animals	p. 149
rEvolutionary Theory: Reinventing Our Origin Myths	p. 173
Carnal Boundaries: The Commingling of Flesh in Theory and Practice	p. 191
The Nazi Treatment of Animals and People	p. 228
Working across the Human-Other Divide	p. 261
Envoi	p. 276
About the Authors	p. 281
Index	p. 285
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