Contents -- Series Foreword -- Foreword: Biological Feedback -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theory and Practice: Biology as Ideology -- 1. Interview with Richard Lewontin -- 2. Living the Eleventh Thesis -- 3. Interview with Richard Levins: On Philosophy of Science -- II. Life.science.art: Curating the Book of Life -- 4. Biotech Patronage and the Making of Homo DNA -- 5. Soft Science: Artists' Experiments in Documentary Storytelling -- 6. Observations on an Art of Growing Interest: Toward a Phenomenological Approach to Art Involving Biotechnology -- III. The Biolab and the Public -- 7. Outfitting the Laboratory of the Symbolic: Toward a Critical Inventory of Bioart -- 8. The Ethics of Experiential Engagement with the Manipulation of Life -- 9. Labs Shut Open: A Biotech Hands-on Workshop for Artists -- IV. Race and the Genome -- 10. Selective Arrests, an Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First-Century Equivalent of Phrenology -- 11. Discovering Nature, Apparently: Analogy, DNA Imaging, and the Latent Figure Protocol -- 12. The Biopolitics of Human Genetics Research and Its Application -- 13. In Contradiction Lies the Hope: Human Genome and Identity Politics -- V. Gendered Science -- 14. Common Knowledge and Political Love -- 15. Producing Transnational Knowledge, Neoliberal Identities, and Technoscientific Practice in India -- 16. Genes, Genera, and Genres: The Nature Culture of BioFiction in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation -- 17. True Life Science Fiction: Sexual Politics and the Lab Procedural -- VI. Expertise and Amateur Science -- 18. Uncommon Life -- 19. AIDS Activists and People with AIDS: A Movement to Revolutionize Research and for Universal Access to Treatment -- 20. The Politics of Rationality: Psychiatric Survivor's Challenge to Psychiatry.

21. Reaching the Limit: When Art Becomes Science -- VII. Biosecurity and Bioethics -- 22. From Bioethics to Human Practices, or Assembling Contemporary Equipment -- 23. How Do We Insure Security from Perceived Biological Threats? -- 24. Bioparanoia and the Culture of Control -- 25. Chinese Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, and Humans, and the Technoscientific Discourses of Global U.S. Empire -- VIII. Interspecies Co-Production -- 26. Training in the Contact Zone: Power, Play, and Invention in the Sport of Agility -- 27. Playing with Rats -- 28. Animal Welfare in the Laboratory: A Case Study in Secular Ethics of Human-Animal Interaction -- Contributors -- Index.