God is dead. Thanks to the decoding of the human genome, the 'word' has been rendered into 'flesh' and 'we can all be proud of our species as it closes in on this summit of self-knowledge'. Yet, the very architects of its decoding have also warned that 't. Provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as a science in the early years of the twentieth century. Seeks to examine the roots of these two paradoxical assessments of the decoding of the human genome. Explores the intersection of historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute.…mehr
God is dead. Thanks to the decoding of the human genome, the 'word' has been rendered into 'flesh' and 'we can all be proud of our species as it closes in on this summit of self-knowledge'. Yet, the very architects of its decoding have also warned that 't. Provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as a science in the early years of the twentieth century. Seeks to examine the roots of these two paradoxical assessments of the decoding of the human genome. Explores the intersection of historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute.
Paolo Palladino is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
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Acknowledgements Introduction References 1. AGRICULTURE AND MEDICINE TODAY Agriculture, medicine and genetics Differentiating agriculture and medicine Historians, historical actors and the archive The archive and the coming into being of the historian History as process References 2. GENETICS, AGRICULTURE AND THE MODERN STATE Remembering beginnings The business of breeding The Plant Breeding Institute The Scottish Plant Breeding Station The Welsh Plant Breeding Station Genetics and the nationalisation of agriculture Privatisation and the coming of the 'age of genetic engineering' References 3. GENETICISTS, BOTANISTS AND PLANT BREEDERS Recovering agency Plant-breeding before the advent of the Mendelian theory of heredity Enter the Mendelian theory of heredity An academic disagreement? The making of breeders Academics, professionals and the politics of science Alliances and forgetting References 4. LABORATORY WORKERS, CLINICIANS AND INBRED MICE Of mice and men Thinking about the organisation of cancer research Mice and experimental studies of cancer The modernisation of surgery Do humans make a difference? References 5. PATIENTS AND THE MAKING OF THE GENETICS OF CANCER A vanishing act Conditions of possibility Disciplinary power and the amplification of dissonance Enter the laboratory The ambiguities of a family history Dealing with the incommensurable References 170 6. CANCER AND THE MAKING OF THE HISTORIAN Impure phenomena Remaking the world Punctum and aporia From transparence to opacity Order and autonomy From writing about to writing with References 7. BEING, THE WORLD OF THINGS AND THE END OF HISTORY Being and the world of things Refashioning the rural world Modernist sensibilities Contemporary echoes The history of capital? References CONCLUSION On zoe and bios (Re)membering in the age of genetic engineering Restitution and redemption The return of the subject The experimental life This isn't it ...! References Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction References 1. AGRICULTURE AND MEDICINE TODAY Agriculture, medicine and genetics Differentiating agriculture and medicine Historians, historical actors and the archive The archive and the coming into being of the historian History as process References 2. GENETICS, AGRICULTURE AND THE MODERN STATE Remembering beginnings The business of breeding The Plant Breeding Institute The Scottish Plant Breeding Station The Welsh Plant Breeding Station Genetics and the nationalisation of agriculture Privatisation and the coming of the 'age of genetic engineering' References 3. GENETICISTS, BOTANISTS AND PLANT BREEDERS Recovering agency Plant-breeding before the advent of the Mendelian theory of heredity Enter the Mendelian theory of heredity An academic disagreement? The making of breeders Academics, professionals and the politics of science Alliances and forgetting References 4. LABORATORY WORKERS, CLINICIANS AND INBRED MICE Of mice and men Thinking about the organisation of cancer research Mice and experimental studies of cancer The modernisation of surgery Do humans make a difference? References 5. PATIENTS AND THE MAKING OF THE GENETICS OF CANCER A vanishing act Conditions of possibility Disciplinary power and the amplification of dissonance Enter the laboratory The ambiguities of a family history Dealing with the incommensurable References 170 6. CANCER AND THE MAKING OF THE HISTORIAN Impure phenomena Remaking the world Punctum and aporia From transparence to opacity Order and autonomy From writing about to writing with References 7. BEING, THE WORLD OF THINGS AND THE END OF HISTORY Being and the world of things Refashioning the rural world Modernist sensibilities Contemporary echoes The history of capital? References CONCLUSION On zoe and bios (Re)membering in the age of genetic engineering Restitution and redemption The return of the subject The experimental life This isn't it ...! References Bibliography
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