Richardson / Stevens Postgenomics

Perspectives on Biology after the Genome
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7544-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Sarah S.

Stevens, Hallam

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.