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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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