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Postgraduate Module Descriptor
SOCM016: Cultures of the Life Sciences
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic readings:
Atkinson, P, Glasner, P and Lock, M (2009) Handbook of Genetics and Society. Routledge.
Dupre, J (1993) The Disorder of Things. Cambridge University Press.
Grene, M. & Depew, D. (2004). The philosophy of biology. Cambridge: CUP.
Mueller-Wille, S and Rheinberger, H (2012) A Conceptual History of Heredity. Chicago University Press.
Sarkar, S., & Plutynski, A., Eds. (2008). A companion to the philosophy of biology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Wimsatt, W. (2007). Re-engineering philosophy for limited beings. Harvard: HUP.