Genes in Development - Re-Reading the Molecular Paradigm

Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms -- the molecular paradigm.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Eva M. Neumann-Held and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter 1

I. Empirical Approaches

1. Genome Analysis and Developmental Biology: The Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System / Thomas R. Burglin 15

2. Genes and Form: Inherency in the Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms / Stuart A. Newman and Gerd B. Muller 38

II. Looking Back into History

3. From Genes as Determinants to DNA as Resource: Historical Notes on Development and Genetics / Sahotra Sarkar 77

III. Theorizing Genes

4. The Origin of Species: A Structuralist Approach / Gerry Webster and Brian C. Goodwin 99

5. On the Problem of the Molecular versus the Organismic Approach in Biology / Ulrich Wolf 135

6. Genes, Development, and Semiosis / Jesper Hoffmeyer 152

7. The Fearless Vampire Conservator: Philip Kitcher, Genetic Determinism, and the Informational Gene / Paul E. Griffiths 175

8. Genetics from an Evolutionary Process Perspective / James Griesemer 199

9. Genes-Causes-Codes: Deciphering DNA’s Ontological Privilege / Eva M. Newmann-Held 238

10. Boundaries and (Constructive) Interaction / Susan Oyama 272

11. Beyond the Gene but Beneath the Skin / Evelyn Fox Keller 290

12. Poiesis and Praxis: Two Modes of Understanding Development / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter 313

IV. Social and Ethical Implications

13. Developmental Emergence, Genes, and Responsible Science / Brian C. Goodwin 337

14. Nothing Like a Gene / Jackie Leach Scully 349

Contributors 365

Index 369

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Eva M. Neumann-Held is Research Assistant and Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Dortmund in Germany.
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter is Assistant Professor for Ethics in Biosciences and Biotechnology at the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the debate on the biological significance and cultural meaning of genes in the development of organisms - the molecular paradigm

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Neumann-Held, Eva M. (EDT)/ Rehmann-sutter Neumann-Held, Eva M. Rehmann-Sutter Neumann-Held
• Mitarbeit: Eva M Neumann-Held (Herausgeber), Eva M. Neumann-Held (Herausgeber), Christoph Rehmann-Sutter (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 27.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822336563
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3656-3
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Science and Cultural Theory; Science and Cultural Theory
• Thema: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer