Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Part One: Introduction. 1. Introducing Nature After the Genome (Sarah Parry and John Dupre). Part Two: Classifying Biological Entities: Epistemologies of Life. 2. The Polygenomic Organism (John Dupre). 3. Defining Stem Cells? Scientists and Their Classifications of Nature (Nicola J. Marks). Part Three: (Re)modelling Nature. 4. Captivating Behaviour: Mouse Models, Experimental Genetics and Reductionist Returns in the Neurosciences (Gail Davies). 5. Getting Bigger: Children?s Bodies, Genes and Environments (Karen Throsby and Celia Roberts). Part Four: Novelty and/in Nature? 6. Synthetic Biology: Constructing Nature? (Jane Calvert). 7. Interspecies Entities and the Politics of Nature (Sarah Parry). Part Five: Public Natures. 8. Drawing Bright Lines: Food and the Futures of Biopharming (Richard Milne). 9. Barcoding Nature: Strategic Naturalization as Innovatory Practice in the Genomic Ordering of Things (Claire Waterton). Part Six: Theorizing Nature Through Genomics. 10. Genomic Natures Read Through Posthumanisms (Richard Twine). 11. Life Times (Tim Newton). 12. Afterword (Barry Barnes). Notes on Contributors. Index.

About the Author

Sarah Parry is Lecturer in Sociology at the Research Centrefor Social Sciences and Associate at the ESRC Innogen Centre,University of Edinburgh. Her work on the social and culturalaspects of stem cell research includes analyses of the meaning ofbiological material and public participation in policy-making. John Dupre is the Director of Egenis (ESRC Centrefor Genomics in Society) and Professor of Philosophy of Science,University of Exeter. His current research focuses on philosophicalissues concerning the interpretation and implications of geneticsand genomics.