Tag: 2019
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Estreich, George, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
George Estreich, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019) 240 pp. $27.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262039567 Across ten chapters of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, George Estreich applies a rhetorical lens to expose the tactics of persuasion and exclusion employed by…
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Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane, Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics, illustrated by Suse Grützmacher; translated by Jonathan Howard (The MIT Press, 2019), 116 pp. $14.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262039949. ‘Nature offers herself to us in many guises; what she hides, she at least hints at; she provides rich material for both the scientist and the philosopher,…
