Postgenomics

Perspectives on Biology after the Genome

Sarah S. Richardson, Hallam Stevens (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2015
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5922-7 (ISBN)

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The contributors to Postgenomics assess the changes to the life sciences the Human Genome Project's completion brought, develop new frameworks for studying the human genome in the postgenomic era, and show how the environment, technology, race, and gender influence the genome and how we think about it.

Ten years after the Human Genome Project’s completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The postgenomic era has seen rapid shifts in research methodology, funding, scientific labor, and disciplinary structures. Postgenomics is transforming our understanding of disease and health, our environment, and the categories of race, class, and gender. At the same time, the gene retains its centrality and power in biological and popular discourse. The contributors to Postgenomics analyze these ruptures and continuities and place them in historical, social, and political context. Postgenomics, they argue, forces a rethinking of the genome itself, and opens new territory for conversations between the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences.

Contributors. Russ Altman, Rachel A. Ankeny, Catherine Bliss, John Dupré, Michael Fortun, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sabina Leonelli, Adrian Mackenzie, Margot Moinester, Aaron Panofsky, Sarah S. Richardson, Sara Shostak, Hallam Stevens

Sarah S. Richardson is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Science and the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome. Hallam Stevens is Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). He is the author of Life Out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics.

Foreward. Biology's Love Affair with the Genome / Russ Altman vii

1. Beyond the Genome / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 1

2. The Postgenomic Genome / Evelyn Fox Keller 9

3. What Toll Pursuit: Affective Assemblages in Genomics and Postgenomics / Mike Fortun 32

4. The Polygenomic Organism / John Dupré 56

5. Machine Learning and Genomic Dimensionality: From Features to Landscapes / Adrian Mackenzie 73

6. Networks: Representations and Tools in Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens 103

7. Valuing Data in Postgenomic Biology: How Data Donation and Curation Practices Challenge the Scientific Publication System / Rachel A. Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli 126

8. From Behavior Genetics to Postgenomics / Aaron Panofsky 150

9. Defining Health Justice in the Postgenomic Era / Catherine Bliss 174

10. The Missing Piece of the Puzzle? Measuring the Environment in the Postgenomic Moment / Sara Shostak and Margot Moinester 192

11. Maternal Bodies in the Postgenomic Order: Gender and the Explanatory Landscape of Epigenetics / Sarah S. Richardson 210

12. Approaching Postgenomics / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson 232

Bibliography 243

Contributors 281

Index 287

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.5.2015
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-5922-7 / 0822359227
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5922-7 / 9780822359227
Zustand	Neuware