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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. Contributors.
Russ Altman, Rachel A. Ankeny, Catherine Bliss, John Dupre, Michael
Fortun, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sabina Leonelli, Adrian Mackenzie,
Margot Moinester, Aaron Panofsky, Sarah S. Richardson, Sara
Shostak, Hallam Stevens
Thirty years ago, biologists worked at laboratory benches, peering
down microscopes, surrounded by petri dishes. Today, they are just
as likely to be found in an office, poring over lines of code on
computers. The use of computers in biology has radically
transformed who biologists are, what they do, and how they
understand life. In Life Out of Sequence, Hallam Stevens looks
inside this new landscape of digital scientific work. Stevens
chronicles the emergence of bioinformatics - the mode of working
across and between biology, computing, mathematics, and statistics
- from the 1960s to the present, seeking to understand how
knowledge about life is made in and through virtual spaces. He
shows how scientific data moves from living organisms into DNA
sequencing machines, through software, and into databases, images,
and scientific publications. What he reveals is a biology very
different from the one of predigital days: a biology that includes
not only biologists but also highly interdisciplinary teams of
managers and workers; a biology that is more centered on DNA
sequencing, but one that understands sequence in terms of dynamic
cascades and highly interconnected networks. Life Out of Sequence
thus offers the computational biology community welcome context for
their own work while also giving the public a frontline perspective
of what is going on in this rapidly changing field.
With Biotechnology and Society, Hallam Stevens offers an up-to-date
primer to help us understand the interactions of biotechnology and
society and the debates, controversies, fears, and hopes that have
shaped how we think about bodies, organisms, and life in the
twenty-first century. Stevens addresses such topics as genetically
modified foods, cloning, and stem cells; genetic testing and the
potential for discrimination; fears of (and, in some cases, hopes
for) designer babies; personal genomics; biosecurity; and even
biotech art. Taken as a whole, the book presents a clear,
authoritative picture of the relationship between biotechnology and
society today, and how our conceptions (and misconceptions) of it
could shape future developments. It will be an essential volume for
students and scholars working with biotechnology, while still being
accessible to the general reader interested in the details behind
breathless news stories about biotech's promise and perils.
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. Contributors.
Russ Altman, Rachel A. Ankeny, Catherine Bliss, John Dupre, Michael
Fortun, Evelyn Fox Keller, Sabina Leonelli, Adrian Mackenzie,
Margot Moinester, Aaron Panofsky, Sarah S. Richardson, Sara
Shostak, Hallam Stevens
Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was
standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope,
surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of
bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a
room that looks more like an office, poring over lines of code on
computer screens. The use of computers in biology has radically
transformed who biologists are, what they do, and how they
understand life. In "Life Out of Sequence," Hallam Stevens looks
inside this new landscape of digital scientific
work.aaaaaaaaaaaStevens chronicles the emergence of
bioinformaticsOCothe mode of working across and between biology,
computing, mathematics, and statisticsOCofrom the 1960s to the
present, seeking to understand how knowledge about life is made in
and through virtual spaces. He shows how scientific data moves from
living organisms into DNA sequencing machines, through software,
and into databases, images, and scientific publications. What he
reveals is a biology very different from the one of predigital
days: a biology that includes not only biologists but also highly
interdisciplinary teams of managers and workers; a biology that is
more centered on DNA sequencing, but one that understands sequence
in terms of dynamic cascades and highly interconnected networks.
"Life Out of Sequence "thus offers the computational biology
community welcome context for their own work while also giving the
public a frontline perspective of what is going on in this rapidly
changing field.
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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding
of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social
change converge and cross-fertilize one another through
infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates
the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three
global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and
China’s emergence as a superpower. Drawing on fine-grained
analyses of airports, highways, pipelines, and digital
communication systems, the book investigates infrastructure both
"from above," as perceived by experts and decision makers, and
"from below," as experienced by middlemen, laborers, and everyday
users. In so doing, it provides groundbreaking insights into
infrastructure’s planning, production, and operation. Focusing on
cities and regions across Asia, the volume combines ten tightly
interwoven case studies, from the Bosphorus to Beijing and from the
Indonesian archipelago to the Arctic. Written by leading global
infrastructure experts in the fields of anthropology, architecture,
geography, history, science and technology studies, and urban
planning, the book establishes a dialogue between scholarly
approaches to infrastructure and the more operational perspective
of the professionals who design and build it. This
multidisciplinary method sheds light on the practitioners’
mindset, while also attending to the materiality and agency of the
infrastructures that they create. Infrastructure and the Remaking
of Asia is conceived as an act of translation: linking up
related—yet thus far disconnected—research across a variety of
academic disciplines, while making those insights accessible to a
wider audience of students, infrastructure professionals, and the
general public.
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding
of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social
change converge and cross-fertilize one another through
infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates
the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three
global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China's
emergence as a superpower. Drawing on fine-grained analyses of
airports, highways, pipelines, and digital communication systems,
the book investigates infrastructure both "from above," as
perceived by experts and decision makers, and "from below," as
experienced by middlemen, laborers, and everyday users. In so
doing, it provides groundbreaking insights into infrastructure's
planning, production, and operation. Focusing on cities and regions
across Asia, the volume combines ten tightly interwoven case
studies, from the Bosphorus to Beijing and from the Indonesian
archipelago to the Arctic. Written by leading global infrastructure
experts in the fields of anthropology, architecture, geography,
history, science and technology studies, and urban planning, the
book establishes a dialogue between scholarly approaches to
infrastructure and the more operational perspective of the
professionals who design and build it. This multidisciplinary
method sheds light on the practitioners' mindset, while also
attending to the materiality and agency of the infrastructures that
they create. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia is conceived
as an act of translation: linking up related-yet thus far
disconnected-research across a variety of academic disciplines,
while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of
students, infrastructure professionals, and the general public.
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