Who is the Scientist-Subject?: Affective History of the GeneThis book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist subject as a neo Kantian ideal self that is, the scientist as a unified and wilful, self determined, self regulated, active and autonomous, rational subject wilfully driven by