Can I read Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals (Biopolitics, 14) on EtoBox?

Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals (Biopolitics, 14) by Friese, Carrie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals (Biopolitics, 14) about?

The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues, significantly affect our conceptualizations of and engagements with wildlife and nature. By studying animals at different locations, Friese explores the human practices surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits zoos—the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London—to see cloning and related practices in action, as well as attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of recalibrating nature through science is what most disturbs us about cloning

Who reads Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals (Biopolitics, 14)?

Author

Friese, Carrie

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814729090

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Biology