Mitchellmemo32

I have for the most part talked about the “exceptional space” as not necessarily a physical place up till now. I was thinking, however, for the book organization, I could arrange the chapters around the lab as the exceptional space. The chapters would then be arranged as what is “in” the exceptional space (the “tools,” the people, etc.), what goes “into” the exceptional space (policies, previously acquired norms, etc.) and what comes “out” of the space (the research, the creatures, the scientists laying the “ethical” groundwork, etc.)

-Introduction Here I will begin with some funny/amusing/scary (depending on one’s perspective) newspaper headlines…things like “moo-tants”…that should set the stage well. Then I’ll give a brief overview of the phenomena described by the headlines (what is this science and why does it matter). Then I’ll describe why I decided to study it. Then I will describe my primary theoretical concept (which sets up the whole text) and make clear why this case fits (without giving away the whole book).I’ll close with the layout of the book and why I chose it.

Section One—What Went In I think I’ll have little intro blips (like 3-4 pages) to set these sections up -Chapter 1 History Here I’ll give a deep history of the case itself, but also provide a wider history looking at other human/animal mixtures in history (the cultural background) and other shifts (in norms/ethics) stemming from technoscience that have an effect on this case (things like IVF).

-Chapter 2 The Policies (perhaps also the political economy?) What the power structure is that this space is embedded in is the primary focus of this chapter. Also, how does that power structure affect how that space takes shape? I.E. if the policy structure were extremely loose than it might be a free-for-all do whatever type of science you want, mix whatever you want, etc. Vice-versa, if it were extremely strict then you might have scientists trying to find ways to “bend the rules” and things like that.

-Chapter 3 The People This will give the cast of characters and all of the important details. Things to be covered include: background (academic lineage, why they wanted/were led to get involved with this particular research), vision of science, vision of humanity, vision of the work going into it.

Section Two—What is Inside This section is basically a lab study component

-Chapter 4 The Process What are the new processes? What enabled them? Why were they ultimately chosen over many other possible means for obtaining stem-cells?

-Chapter 5 The Objects What are these things being created? What is their significance?

-Chapter 6 People Revisited The idea of this chapter is to get a sense of the people once they’re entered the space. That is, what are their experiences of working in this space, how do they think about their work, and also various observations I might have.

Section Three—What Came Out This section I’m most unsure about at the moment…

Chapter 7 ethics New norms and ethics that have come out of the space

Chapter 8 New Science New scientific frontiers being embarked upon

Chapter 9 New public attitudes? I don’t know about this one, but want to link the “lab” and the “science” to the outside world.

Conclusion I will tie everything together