From Molecular Genetics to Genomics (eBook, ePUB)

The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics
Redaktion: Gaudillière, Jean-Paul; Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the rise of genomics, the life sciences have entered a new era. This book provides a comprehensive history of molecular genetics and genomics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134334070
• Artikelnr.: 47884549

Autorenporträt

Jean-Paul Gaudillière is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Health (INSERM), Paris. His work has addressed many aspects of the history of molecular biology and of the biomedical sciences during the twentieth century. His contemporary research focuses on the history of biological drugs. He is the co-editor of Heredity and Infection: A History of Disease Transmission (2002). Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published numerous papers and books in molecular biology and the history of science, including a co-edited collection, The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1. Molecularizing Maps1. Angela Creager. Mapping Genes in
Microorganisms2. Frederic L. Holmes. Seymour Benzer and the Convergence of
Molecular Biology with Classical Genetics3. Marcel Weber. Walking on the
Chromosome: Drosophila and the Molecularization of Development4. Scott
Gilbert. Gene Expression Maps: The Cartography of Transcription5. Soraya de
Chadarevian. Mapping the Worm's Genome: Tools, Networks, PatronageSection
2. The Moral and the Political Economy of Human Genome Sequencing6. Stephen
Hilgartner. Making Maps and Making Social Order: Governing American Genome
Centers, 1988-937. Alain Kaufmann. Mapping the Human Genome at Généthon
Laboratory: The French Muscular Dystrophy Association and the Politics of
the Gene8. Adam Bostanci. Sequencing Human Genomes9. Gísli Pálsson.
Decoding Relations and Disease: The Icelandic Biogenetic Project