Squier Epigenetic Landscapes

Drawings as Metaphor
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7260-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Susan Merrill Squier follows the cultural trail of C. H. Waddington's "epigenetic landscape" metaphor from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science, examining how it has been used to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Squier, Susan Merrill

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene 1
1. The Epigenetic Landscape 21
2. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance 51
3. Embryo 69
4. The Graphic Embryo 87
5. The River in the Landscape 129
6. Designing Rivers 161
7. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape 183
Conclusion. Anastomosis 205
Notes 215
References 241
Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. Her many books include Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, both also published by Duke University Press; Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet; and, as coauthor, Graphic Medicine Manifesto.