Postgenomics : perspectives on biology after the genome / Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Sarah S., 1980- editor.

Stevens, Hallam, editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Genome Project.

Human gene mapping.

Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genetic engineering.

Genomics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genomics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The postgenomic era has seen rapid shifts in research methodology, funding, scientific labor, and disciplinary structures. Postgenomics is transforming our understanding of disease and health, our environment, and the categories of race, class, and gender. At the same time, the gene retains its centrality and power in biological and popular discourse. The contributors to Postgenomics analyze these ruptures and continuities and place them in historical, social, and political context. Postgenomics, they argue, forces a rethinking of the genome itself, and opens new territory for conversations between the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences. Book jacket.

Contents:

Biology's love affair with the genome / Russ Altman

Beyond the genome / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson

The postgenomic genome / Evelyn Fox Keller

What toll pursuit: affective assemblages in genomics and postgenomics / Mike Fortun

The polygenomic organism / John Dupré

Machine learning and genomic dimensionality: from features to landscapes / Adrian Mackenzie

Networks: representations and tools in postgenomics / Hallam Stevens

Valuing data in postgenomic biology: how data donation and curation practices : challenge the scientific publication system / Rachel A. Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli

From behavior genetics to postgenomics / Aaron Panofsky

Defining health justice in the postgenomic era / Catherine Bliss

The missing piece of the puzzle' measuring the environment in the postgenomic moment / Sara Shostak and Margot Moinester

Maternal bodies in the postgenomic order: gender and the explanatory landscape of epigenetics / Sarah S. Richardson

Approaching postgenomics / Hallam Stevens and Sarah S. Richardson.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Postgenomics.

ISBN:

9780822375449

0822375443

Publisher Number:

99963490946

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.