Biohackers: the Politics of Open Science

Name: Biohackers: the Politics of Open Science
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ISBN: 9780745332802

ISBN-10: 0745332803

ISBN-13: 9780745332802

Edition: 2013

Authors: Alessandro Delfanti

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Crack the code, share your data, have fun, save the world, be independent, become famous and make a lot of money. The remix between the Mertonian ethic of 20th century science and the hacker ethic is producing an emergent open science culture that is redefining the relation between researchers, scientific institutions and intellectual property is redefined. This book tells the story of the open access turn of the American biologist Craig Venter, the rebellion of the Italian virologist Ilaria Capua against WHO data sharing policies and the emergence of citizen biology projects that explicitly refer to the hacking history. These biologists can be a rich model for current transformations in…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 5/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Preface



Cracking Codes, Remixing Cultures



Forbidden, Public, Enclosed, Open Science



Hackers, Rebels and Profiteers



Sailing and Sequencing the Genome Seas



Just Another Rebel Scientist



We are the Biohackers



Conclusion: How to Hack Biology


Notes


Bibliography


Index