@inbook{83dd5fac7a8948d9b149532b912e2456,
title = "Synthetic Biology",
abstract = "New and emerging sciences and technologies present particular analytical problems for their investigators. This chapter addresses some of these problems while unpacking the example of synthetic biology. The latter can be defined in numerous and sometimes contradictory ways, but at its most general, synthetic biology is an effort to re-imagine biological science and technology in light of engineering. A further defining feature of synthetic biology has been the conspicuously rapid rise of research interest from scholars in the social sciences and humanities, even leading some to coin the term {\textquoteleft}para-synthetic biologist{\textquoteright} (Campos, 2012: 138).",
author = "Jane Calvert and Dominic Berry and Deborah Scott",
year = "2018",
month = apr,
day = "11",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138211957",
series = "Routledge International Handbooks",
publisher = "CRC Press",
pages = "300--307",
editor = "Sahra Gibbon and Barbara Prainsack and Stephen Hilgartner and Janelle Lamoreaux",
booktitle = "Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society",
}