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Index
Cover
Front Matter
Prologue
1 A New Lens on Life
Origin stories: the evolution of life
From field to lab: life redescribed
Privatizing progress
To market, to market: life as commodity
Genomic futures
Notes
2 Book of Revelations
Biology’s eureka moments
Self-regulation 2.0: the Asilomar meeting
Asilomar’s surprising legacy
Conclusion
Notes
3 Life and Law: Constitutional Turns
The sovereignty of science
Trials in the fields of rDNA
A royal abdication
Counternarratives: natural law
Conclusion
Notes
4 Life in the Gray Zone
Engineering ambitions
Liminal lives
Ambiguous achievements
Notes
5 Language Games
Biotechnology: pure or entangled?
The embryo: what’s in a name?
Setting the terms of debate
Conclusion
Notes
6 A New Biopower
A revolutionary mission
Feeding the world
A measured environment
Energy imaginaries
The networked genome
A more open future
Conclusion
Notes
7 Life’s Purposes
Introit
Credo
Postlude
Notes
References
Index
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