Postgenomics

Description

Pages:
305
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
3 MB
ISBN-10:
0822358948, 0822359227
ISBN-13:
978-0822358947, 978-0822359227
ASIN:
B00Y0AGQNG
by Sarah S. Richardson (Editor), Hallam Stevens (Editor)

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.