@article{1479641,
      recid = {1479641},
      author = {Friese, Carrie, },
      title = {Cloning Wild Life : Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of  Endangered Animals /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of  varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions,  and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global  warming. At the same time, humans are also working to  actively shape this natural world through contemporary  bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie  Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at  the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific  solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with  controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues,  significantly affect our conceptualizations of and  engagements with wildlife and nature.By studying animals at  different locations, Friese explores the human practices  surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits  zoos-the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in  New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London-to see  cloning and related practices in action, as well as  attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing  scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in  cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of  recalibrating nature through science is what most disturbs  us about cloning animals in captivity, revealing that  debates over cloning become, in the end, a site of  political struggle between different human groups.  Moreover, Friese explores the implications of the social  role that animals at the zoo play in the first place-how  they are viewed, consumed, and used by humans for our own  needs. A unique study uniting sociology and the study of  science and technology, Cloning Wild Life demonstrates just  how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about  the meaning of life itself.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479641},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814729083.001.0001},
}