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Death of Life

The Legacy of Molecular Biology

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Stanley Shostak

    1. Leenane, Ireland

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Biology is Ill

    • Stanley Shostak
    Pages 1-34

  3. Before the Ball

    • Stanley Shostak
    Pages 35-83

  4. Biology Goes to the Ball

    • Stanley Shostak
    Pages 84-125

  5. Biology’s Mid-Life Crisis

    • Stanley Shostak
    Pages 126-161

  6. The Road(s) Not Taken: from Lamarck to Lovelock

    • Stanley Shostak
    Pages 162-197

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 214-275
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The Death of Life dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation, experiment and theory are exposed as the skeleton of ideas for controlling life, ideas which were only fleshed out by the biotech and genomic industries. Physicists- and chemists-turned biologists in alliance with biology's own eugenicists are shown to have abandoned the study of life and suppressed poststructuralist approaches ranging from neoLamarckism to biogeological/Gaia theory.
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  • Leenane, Ireland

    Stanley Shostak

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