Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge

by Lynda Birke (Editor), Ruth Hubbard

"Much more than a book about animal welfare, it explores how the scientific questions and answers would be different if biology operated from a paradigm of respect for the objects of study. Thirteen contributions are arranged in four distinct sections; individual topics vary extensively but each is first-rate." —Choice "Ruth Hubbard and Lynda Birke have asked an important how would the practices of biology change if organisms were considered subjects with agency? They have gathered an array of excellent scholars and a broad spectrum of perspectives.... this is a fresh and important question." —Londa Schiebinger Essays explore how the practice of biology could change if scientists treated the organisms they use in their experiments what it means to raise animals or plants as experimental resources; what guides decisions about which animals to breed for experimental purposes.

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 22, 1995

About the author

LYNDA BIRKE is a feminist biologist who has written extensively on the connections between feminism and science. She is the co-founder of two feminist groups and author of several bookps including Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge; Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew; Rethinking Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge (co-edited with Ruth Hubbard);and, Common Science? Women, Science and Knowledge (with Jean Barr).