Postgenomics : perspectives on biology after the genome
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Postgenomics : perspectives on biology after the genome
Duke University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Contributors. Russ Altman, Rachel A. Ankeny, Catherine Bliss, John Dupre, Michael Fortun, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sabina Leonelli, Adrian Mackenzie, Margot Moinester, Aaron Panofsky, Sarah S. Richardson, Sara Shostak, Hallam Stevens
Table of Contents
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 Dupre 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
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