Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.
Haraway, one of the most highly regarded theorists in America, disusses her intellectual development and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life.
For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers of nature, science and the social world. This volume is provides an introduction to her thought.
Haraway, one of the most highly regarded theorists in America, discusses her intellectual development and influences, the role of Catholicism in her thinking and how her ethical stands have mirrored issues in her personal life.