Esha Shah

Who is the Scientist-Subject? (eBook, ePUB)

Affective History of the Gene

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian ideal self - that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self-determined, self-regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by social and scientific ethos - in favour of a narrative that shows how the microcosm of reductionism is sustained, adopted, questioned, or challenged in the creative struggles of the scientist-subject.

The author covers a century-long history of the concept of the gene as a series of "pioneering moments" through an engagement with life-writings of eminent scientists to show how their ways of being and belonging relate with the making of the science. The scientist-self is theorized as fundamentally a feeling, experiencing, and suffering subject split between the conscious and unconscious and constitutive of personality aspects that are emotional/psychological, "situated" (cultural and ideological), metaphysical, intersubjective, and existential at the same time.

An engaging interdisciplinary interpretation of the dominance of reductionism in genetic science, this book will be of major interest to scholars and researchers of science, history, and philosophy alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429953170
• Artikelnr.: 56831986

Autorenporträt

Esha Shah is an environmental engineer by training and a social anthropologist, historian, and philosopher of science and technology by professional choice. She is Assistant Professor with the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Her research interests so far have broadly concerned the history and anthropology of technology-led development in India on the divide of modernity and democracy. With this book, her research interests have expanded to philosophy of subjectivity and its relation to modes of rationality, including objectivity in science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Affective History of the Gene 2. Who is the Scientist
Subject? A Critique of the Neo
Kantian Scientist
Subject in Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison's Objectivity 3. Immortality Ideologies and the Particulate Gene: H. J. Muller 4. What is Life? Placed in Erwin Schrodinger's Life 5. The Myth and Truth of Barbara McClintock 6. Rosalind Franklin and her Science
in
the
making: A Situated, Sexual and Existential Portrait 7. The Ultra
Contemporary Self and Hyper
Reductionism of Human Genome Science: Craig Venter 8. Conclusion