Cloning Wild Life : Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals / Carrie Friese.
2013
QH442.2 .F75 2016
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Title
Cloning Wild Life : Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals / Carrie Friese.
Author
Friese, Carrie, author.
ISBN
9780814729090
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource : 6 black and white illustrations
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814729083.001.0001 doi
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QH442.2 .F75 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
571.9646
Summary
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.
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Biopolitics ; ; 14
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Debating Cloning
2. Making Animals
3. Transpositions
4. Reproducing Populations
5. Genetic Values
6. Knowing Endangered Species
7. Biodiversities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Debating Cloning
2. Making Animals
3. Transpositions
4. Reproducing Populations
5. Genetic Values
6. Knowing Endangered Species
7. Biodiversities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author