Imagining Science
by Caulfield, SeanFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-11-15
Publisher(s): Univ of Alberta Pr
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Summary
"Imagining Science" brings together internationally recognised artists, scientists, and social commentators to feature a body of original artwork and essays which explores the complex legal, ethical, and social concerns about advances in biotechnology, such as stem cell research, cloning, and genetic testing. Many important questions and themes emerge from this exchange, highlighting the linkages between scientific and creative research. This collaboration also stresses the vital role art can play in critiquing these biomedical technologies, particularly as advancements in science begin to challenge our ethical boundaries.
Table of Contents
| Imagining Science | |
| Making Art, Making Policy | p. 1 |
| The Evocative Image: Art and the Perception of Risk | p. 3 |
| Jason Phillip Knight & Fiona Annis | p. 5 |
| Half Human, Half Beast?: Creating Chimeras in Stem Cell Research | p. 9 |
| Music in the Key of DNA | p. 12 |
| Adam Zaretsky | p. 15 |
| Of Ladders, Trees and Webs: Genomic Tales through Metaphor | p. 19 |
| What is Science? What is Art? What Does it Matter? | p. 21 |
| Royden Mills & Sean Caulfield | p. 23 |
| Art, Science and Aesthetic Ethics | p. 27 |
| Believing the Impossible | p. 30 |
| Christine Davis | p. 32 |
| Within You, Without You | p. 38 |
| Imagining Science | p. 41 |
| Lyndal Osborne | p. 46 |
| Art and Science: Conflict or Congruence? | p. 50 |
| Untitled | p. 52 |
| Christine Borland | p. 54 |
| Policymaking and Poetry | p. 58 |
| The Plasticized Pregnant Woman and Legal Rights over Reproductive "Material" | p. 60 |
| Eduardo Kac | p. 63 |
| Regarding Desire in Science and Medicine | p. 67 |
| Bioethics as a Social Response to Science and Technology | p. 69 |
| Liz Ingram & Bernd Hildebrandt | p. 71 |
| Art and the Governance of New Technologies | p. 75 |
| What Are Metaphors For? | p. 78 |
| Catherine Richards | p. 81 |
| Ain't Dat-A Beauty | p. 85 |
| Art and Science: Genomics and Food | p. 87 |
| Atoms and Base Pairs: The New Lego | p. 89 |
| Shawn Bailey & Jennifer Willet | p. 91 |
| Reading List | p. 95 |
| Biographies | p. 97 |
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