Epigenetic Landscapes

Drawings As Metaphor

AvSusan Merrill Squier

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic research because of its utility among scientists across the life sciences to think more creatively about and to discuss genetics. In Epigenetic Landscapes Susan Merrill Squier follows the model’s cultural trail, from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science. Squier examines three cases in which the metaphor has been imaginatively deployed to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt. Challenging reductive understandings of epigenetics, Squier boldly reclaims the broader significance of the epigenetic landscape as a figure at the nexus of art, design, and science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822368601

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. Her many books include Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, both also published by Duke University Press; Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet; and, as coauthor, Graphic Medicine Manifesto.

Recensioner i media

"A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art." - Rebecca Rahimi (Science, Medicine, and Anthropology) "Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science." - Erik L. Peterson (Isis)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene 11. The Epigenetic Landscape 212. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance 513. Embryo 694. The Graphic Embryo 875. The River in the Landscape 1296. Designing Rivers 1617. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape 183Conclusion. Anastomosis 205Notes 215References 241Index 259