Neumann-Held / Rehmann-Sutter / Smith Genes in Development

Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8733-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms -- the molecular paradigm.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neumann-Held, Eva M.

Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter 1

I. Empirical Approaches

1. Genome Analysis and Developmental Biology: The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System / Thomas R. Burglin 15

2. Genes and Form: Inherency in the Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms / Stuart A. Newman and Gerd B. Muller 38

II. Looking Back into History

3. From Genes as Determinants to DNA as Resource: Historical Notes on Development and Genetics / Sahotra Sarkar 77

III. Theorizing Genes

4. The Origin of Species: A Structuralist Approach / Gerry Webster and Brian C. Goodwin 99

5. On the Problem of the Molecular versus the Organismic Approach in Biology / Ulrich Wolf 135

6. Genes, Development, and Semiosis / Jesper Hoffmeyer 152

7. The Fearless Vampire Conservator: Philip Kitcher, Genetic Determinism, and the Informational Gene / Paul E. Griffiths 175

8. Genetics from an Evolutionary Process Perspective / James Griesemer 199

9. Genes-Causes-Codes: Deciphering DNA’s Ontological Privilege / Eva M. Newmann-Held 238

10. Boundaries and (Constructive) Interaction / Susan Oyama 272

11. Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin / Evelyn Fox Keller 290

12. Poiesis and Praxis: Two Modes of Understanding Development / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter 313

IV. Social and Ethical Implications

13. Developmental Emergence, Genes, and Responsible Science / Brian C. Goodwin 337

14. Nothing Like a Gene / Jackie Leach Scully 349

Contributors 365

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

Eva M. Neumann-Held is Research Assistant and Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Dortmund in Germany.Christoph Rehmann-Sutter is Assistant Professor for Ethics in Biosciences and Biotechnology at the University of Basel in Switzerland.