Designing Human Practices : An Experiment with Synthetic Biology - Paul Rabinow

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Designing Human Practices

An Experiment with Synthetic Biology

By: Paul Rabinow, Gaymon Bennett

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In 2006 anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Gaymon Bennett set out to rethink the role that human sciences play in biological research, creating the Human Practices division of the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center-a facility established to create design standards for the engineering of new enzymes, genetic circuits, cells, and other biological entities-to formulate a new approach to the ethical, security, and philosophical considerations of controversial biological work. They sought not simply to act as watchdogs but to integrate the biosciences with their own discipline in a more fundamentally interdependent way, inventing a new, dynamic, and experimental anthropology that they could bring to bear on the center's biological research.

Designing Human Practices is a detailed account of this anthropological experiment and, ultimately, its rejection. It provides new insights into the possibilities and limitations of collaboration, and diagnoses the micro-politics which effectively constrained the potential for mutual scientific flourishing. Synthesizing multiple disciplines, including biology, genetics, anthropology, and philosophy, alongside a thorough examination of funding entities such as the National Science Foundation, Designing Human Practices pushes the social study of science into new and provocative territory, utilizing a real-world experience as a springboard for timely reflections on how the human and life sciences can and should transform each other.

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"Designing Human Practices is a very significant, quite brilliantly conceived, at times quite fascinating, and always thought-provoking project. It both documents a particularly complex history of an experimental project in natural/human science engagement and provides a bracing and at times daunting set of schematics for thinking through not only the specifics of the SynBERC project but also its broader resonances." (Donald Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz)"

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: A Productive Experiment	p. 1
Human Practices: Diagnosis
The Setting. SynBERC: The Synthetic Biology, Engineering Research Center	p. 13
Principles of Design 2006-2007: From Bioethics to Human Practices	p. 31
Interfacing the Human and Biosciences 2007: Three Modes	p. 47
Synthetic Biology 2008: From Manifestos to Ramifying Research Programs	p. 65
Lessons Learned 2009: From Discordancy to Indeterminacy	p. 84
Human Practices: Inquiry
Recapitulation and Reorientation 2009: The First Wave of Human Practices	p. 99
The Second Wave of Synthetic Biology 2009: From Parts to Ontological Domains	p. 111
A Mode 3 Experiment. Figuring Dual-Use: From Safety to Malice	p. 123
Toward the Second Wave of Human Practices 2010: Figures of Dual-Use, Biopower, and Reconstruction	p. 150
Lessons Learned 2010: From Indeterminacy to Discordancy	p. 166
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 201
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