The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics - Couverture souple

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg; Müller-Wille, Staffan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022651000X ISBN 13 : 9780226510002

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2018

Synopsis

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of the concept of the gene, arguing instead for more systemic perspectives.

The time could not be better, therefore, for Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille's magisterial history of the concept of the gene. Though the gene has long been the central organizing theme of biology, both conceptually and as an object of study, Rheinberger and Müller-Wille conclude that we have never even had a universally accepted, stable definition of it. Rather, the concept has been in continual flux—a state that, they contend, is typical of historically important and productive scientific concepts. It is that very openness to change and manipulation, the authors argue, that made it so useful: its very mutability enabled it to be useful while the technologies and approaches used to study and theorize about it changed dramatically.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is honorary professor of the history of science at the Technical University of Berlin and director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He is the author, with Staffan Müller-Wille, of The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics and A Cultural History of Heredity, both published by the University of Chicago Press

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022651000X
• ISBN 13: 9780226510002
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
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