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The emergence of genetic rationality : space, time, & information in American biological science, 1870-1920 / Phillip Thurtle.

Van Pelt Library QH428.2.U6 T48 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thurtle, Phillip.
Series:
In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
In vivo
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genetics--United States--History.
Genetics.
Genetics--Social aspects--United States.
Genetics--Economic aspects--United States.
Genetics--history.
Genetics--Social aspects.
History.
United States.
Capitalism.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Medical Subjects:
Genetics--history.
United States.
Capitalism.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Physical Description:
xiii, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]
Contents:
Middle class mores: Beaufort's bastards
Breeding true: processing a new elite
The political economy of natural history
Homologous networks of exchange: the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange
Categorizing experience: space and time in nineteenth-century natural history
The Pacific Railway survey: the subject in the panoramic mode
Storied pasts
The plot thickens: the political economic dimensions of biological stories
Wandering and narrative
Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex
Writing, goods, and memory
Industrial perspectives: Luther Burbank
Record keeping: a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.
Notes:
"A Samuel & Althea Stroum book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-366) and index.
ISBN:
9780295987569
0295987561
9780295987507
0295987502
OCLC:
145014795

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