The Moral Authority of Nature

Introduction: Doing What Comes Naturally
Lorraine Daston and Fernando Vidal
PART ONE. VALUES
1. Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod's Works and Days
Laura M. Slatkin
2. Nature in Person: Medieval and Renaissance Allegories and Emblems
Katharine Park
3. Burning The Fable of the Bees: The Incendiary Authority of Nature
Danielle Allen
4. Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment
Lorraine Daston
5. The Erotic Authority of Nature: Science, Art, and the Female during Goethe's Italian Journey
Robert J. Richards
6. Nature and Bildung: Pedagogical Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Eckhardt Fuchs
7. Economics, Ecology, and the Value of Nature
Matt Price
PART TWO. NECESSITY AND FREEDOM
8. Trouble in the Earthly Paradise: The Regime of Nature in Late Medieval Christian Culture
Joan Cadden
9. Nature on Trial: Acts "Against Nature" in the Law Courts of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland
Helmut Puff
10. Onanism, Enlightenment Medicine, and the Immanent Justice of Nature
Fernando Vidal
11. Ants and the Nature of Nature in Auguste Forel, Erich Wasmann, and William Morton Wheeler
A. J. Lustig
12. "To Become As One Dead": Nature and the Political Subject in Modern Japan
Julia Adeney Thomas
13. Liberation through Control in the Body Politics of U.S. Radical Feminism
Michelle Murphy
PART THREE. BOUNDARIES
14. Complexio/Complexion: Categorizing Individual Natures, 1250-1600
Valentin Groebner
15. Human Experimentation in the Eighteenth Century: Natural Boundaries and Valid Testing
Londa Schiebinger
16. Nature and Nation in Chinese Political Thought: The National Essence Circle in Early-Twentieth-Century China
Fa-ti Fan
17. When Pollen Became Poison: A Cultural Geography of Ragweed in America
Gregg Mitman
18. Three Roots of Human Recency: Molecular Anthropology, the Refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz
Robert N. Proctor
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Index