The Emergence of Genetic Rationality : Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thurtle, Phillip
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2007.
Series:In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
History, 20th Century > United States.
History, 19th Century > United States.
Capitalism > United States.
Genetics > history > United States.
Genetics > Economic aspects > United States.
Genetics > Social aspects > United States.
Genetics > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Middle class mores: Beaufort's bastards
  • Breeding true: processing a new elite
  • The political economy of natural history
  • Homologous networks of exchange: the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange
  • Categorizing experience: space and time in nineteenth-century natural history
  • The Pacific Railway survey: the subject in the panoramic mode
  • Storied pasts
  • The plot thickens: the political economic dimensions of biological stories
  • Wandering and narrative
  • Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex
  • Writing, goods, and memory
  • Industrial perspectives: Luther Burbank
  • Record keeping: a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.

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