{"product_id":"rendering-life-molecular-9780822358787","title":"Rendering Life Molecular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNatasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create, represent, and evaluate otherwise imperceptible molecules. These modelers often consider matter to be made up of living, moving, and sometimes breathing entities, and Myers' study of them rethinks the objectivity of science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics.\"  -- Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa * New Genetics and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most exciting books published this year, Natasha Myer’s \u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, is an ethnography of protein modellers, the first such study of this new and central area of biological research.\" -- Sherryl Vint * Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\"Amplifying instances of haptic and creative thinking opens avenues for a different kind of science than one may find presented in popular media.... The result is not only intellectually invigorating but also abounds in amusing curiosities. One might say 'eye opening,' but in the spirit of the book, it would perhaps be better to say 'vivifying.'\"  -- Jonathan G. Wald * Current Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/i\u003e offers an engaging view into the world of scientists who describe the unseeable.\" -- R. M. Denome * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRendering Life Molecular\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking book, a whirlwind ethnography pregnant with epistemological and empirical insights on movements, practices, knowledge and reasoning around proteins, which can and should inform future philosophical studies of modeling as well as STS work on experimental practices in and beyond biology.\" -- Sabina Leonelli * Metascience *\u003cbr\u003e\"... logical, theoretically and methodologically iterative, and, most importantly, ethnographically rich and robust.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Udo Krautwurst * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Laboratory Entanglements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Crystallographic Renderings  35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tangible Media  74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Molecular Embodiments  99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Ontics and Epistemics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rending Representation  121\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Remodeling Objectivity  136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Forms of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Machinic Life  159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Lively Machines  182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Molecular Calisthenics  204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What Is Life Becoming?  230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: A Protein Primer  239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  299","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406086971735,"sku":"9780822358787","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822358787.jpg?v=1730494480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rendering-life-molecular-9780822358787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}