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Heredity under the Microscope
- Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome
Engelsk Paperback
Heredity under the Microscope
- Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome
Engelsk Paperback

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By focusing on chromosomes, Heredity under the Microscope offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twentieth century, researchers studied chromosomes by looking through a microscope. Unlike any other technique, chromosome analysis offered a direct glimpse of the complete human genome, opening up seemingly endless possibilities for observation and intervention. Critics, however, countered that visual evidence was not enough and pointed to the need to understand the molecular mechanisms.   Telling this history in full for the first time, Soraya de Chadarevian argues that the often bewildering variety of observations made under the microscope were central to the study of human genetics. Making space for microscope-based practices alongside molecular approaches, de Chadarevian analyzes the close connections between genetics and an array of scientific, medical, ethical, legal, and policy concerns in the atomic age. By exploring the visual evidence provided by chromosome research in the context of postwar biology and medicine, Heredity under the Microscope sheds new light on the cultural history of the human genome.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780226685113
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022668511X
Udg. Dato:
2 jul 2020
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
174mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
2 jul 2020
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