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Plants, Patients, and the Historian examines the relationship between the act of historical recollection and the coming "age of genetic engineering." Paolo Palladino provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as an agricultural science in the early years of the twentieth century to its contemporary biomedical applications.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: life decoded?
Genes, archives and history
Plants, genetics and the modern state
Genetics and the erasure of history
Genetic practices and the end of the subject
Genes, genealogies and the return of the subject?
Metaphor, desire and the historian
Writing and the experimental life
Conclusion: this isn't it...
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Paolo Palladino is a senior lecturer in the department of history at Lancaster University, U.K. and author of Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America, 1885-1985.
Summary
Plants, Patients, and the Historian examines the relationship between the act of historical recollection and the coming "age of genetic engineering." Paolo Palladino provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as an agricultural science in the early years of the twentieth century to its contemporary biomedical applications.
