Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of GenealogyDuke University Press, 11 avr. 2007 - 264 pages While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant. Building on the work of historians and anthropologists, Franklin reveals Dolly as the embodiment of agricultural, scientific, social, and commercial histories which are, in turn, bound up with national and imperial aspirations. Dolly was the offspring of a long tradition of animal domestication, as well as the more recent histories of capital accumulation through selective breeding, and enhanced national competitiveness through the control of biocapital. Franklin traces Dolly's connections to Britain's centuries-old sheep and wool markets (which were vital to the nation's industrial revolution) and to Britain's export of animals to its colonies—particularly Australia—to expand markets and produce wealth. Moving forward in time, she explains the celebrity sheep's links to the embryonic cell lines and global bioscientific innovation of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Franklin combines wide-ranging sources—from historical accounts of sheep-breeding, to scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer, to popular media reports of Dolly's creation and birth—as she draws on gender and kinship theory as well as postcolonial and science studies. She argues that there is an urgent need for more nuanced responses to the complex intersections between the social and the biological, intersections which are literally reshaping reproduction and genealogy. In Dolly Mixtures, Franklin uses the renowned sheep as an opportunity to begin developing a critical language to identify and evaluate the reproductive possibilities that post-Dolly biology now faces, and to look back at some of the important historical formations that enabled and prefigured Dollys creation. |
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... scientific progress , or categories such as gender , sex , and species . The primary idioms I use in this book are those of genealogy and mixtures — in order to explore Dolly's con- nections and disconnections , their scale and ...
... scientific facts of Dolly's creation from the hype that surrounds her , and the topic of cloning more broadly , this book argues against the viability of such separations by emphasizing many of the ways in which “. 4 ORIGINS.
... scientific representations of cloning by nuclear transfer to popular media accounts of Dolly's creation and birth . Critically , this book draws on cultural studies and anthropology , gender and kinship theory , science studies ...
... scientific rationality and imperative of improvement that typify the Enlightenment legacy as a necessary threat to the very essence of humanity as some prominent commentators have claimed ( Fuku- yama 2002 ; Habermas 2003 ; Kass 1998 ) ...
... scientific innovation that should be kept at a more critical distance , and that working closely with scientists inevitably makes one sympathetic to their cause . Hence , in taking scientific innovation seriously enough to attempt to ...
Table des matières
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1 Sex | 19 |
2 Capital | 46 |
3 Nation | 73 |
4 Colony | 118 |
5 Death | 158 |
Breeds | 195 |
Notes | 209 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 245 |