Postgenomics
Perspectives on Biology after the Genome
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2015
305 pages
978-0-8223-7544-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
16 illustrations
16 illustrations
File size
17,71 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-7544-9 (9780822375449)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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
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
