Rendering Life Molecular

Bodies in motion-bodies of all kinds and at all scales-dance together in the act of coming to palpable, knowable attention. Further, mindful bodies think best and build richer worlds of knowledge and practice when play infuses work in the symbiosis called science. In this astute and beautifully written book, it is protein models and their people and machines that dance together, tuned to the visceral sensibilities, vital affections, and kinesthetic energies that make the sciences of molecular biology work. Rendering Life Molecular shows in just how many ways biology is a full-bodied practice. Readers will be excited in all the best ways. -- Donna Haraway, author of When Species Meet With a lively and engaging style, a commitment to a feminist and phenomenological analysis, and an extraordinary attention to the specificity of scientists' embodied, material, and affective engagement in the creation of knowledge, Natasha Myers takes the study of the biosciences in a new direction. Rendering Life Molecular expands the laboratory studies canon as it re-animates our sense of the dynamic contingencies and relationalities of all biological entities. -- Lucy Suchman, author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations Essential reading for those interested biopolitics, bioethics, science studies, and genetics, genomics, and the new omics. -- Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa New Genetics and Society