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Informationen zum Autor Paolo Palladino is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University Klappentext God is dead. Thanks to the decoding of the human genome, the 'word' has been rendered into 'flesh' and 'we can all be proud of our species as it closes in on this summit of self-knowledge'. Yet, the very architects of its decoding have also warned that 't. Provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as a science in the early years of the twentieth century. Seeks to examine the roots of these two paradoxical assessments of the decoding of the human genome. Explores the intersection of historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute. Zusammenfassung Explores the intersection of historiography! critical theory! and science and technology studies! aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionReferences1. AGRICULTURE AND MEDICINE TODAYAgriculture, medicine and geneticsDifferentiating agriculture and medicineHistorians, historical actors and the archiveThe archive and the coming into being of the historianHistory as processReferences2. GENETICS, AGRICULTURE AND THE MODERN STATERemembering beginningsThe business of breedingThe Plant Breeding InstituteThe Scottish Plant Breeding StationThe Welsh Plant Breeding StationGenetics and the nationalisation of agriculturePrivatisation and the coming of the 'age of genetic engineering'References3. GENETICISTS, BOTANISTS AND PLANT BREEDERSRecovering agencyPlant-breeding before the advent of the Mendelian theory of heredityEnter the Mendelian theory of heredityAn academic disagreement?The making of breedersAcademics, professionals and the politics of scienceAlliances and forgettingReferences4. LABORATORY WORKERS, CLINICIANS AND INBRED MICEOf mice and menThinking about the organisation of cancer researchMice and experimental studies of cancerThe modernisation of surgeryDo humans make a difference?References5. PATIENTS AND THE MAKING OF THE GENETICS OF CANCERA vanishing actConditions of possibilityDisciplinary power and the amplification of dissonanceEnter the laboratoryThe ambiguities of a family historyDealing with the incommensurableReferences 1706. CANCER AND THE MAKING OF THE HISTORIANImpure phenomenaRemaking the worldPunctum and aporiaFrom transparence to opacityOrder and autonomyFrom writing about to writing withReferences7. BEING, THE WORLD OF THINGS AND THE END OF HISTORYBeing and the world of thingsRefashioning the rural worldModernist sensibilitiesContemporary echoesThe history of capital?ReferencesCONCLUSIONOn zoe and bios(Re)membering in the age of genetic engineeringRestitution and redemptionThe return of the subjectThe experimental lifeThis isn't it ...!ReferencesBibliography...
