商品簡介
In the first of three volumes emerging from a March 1002 conference in Berlin, historians and philosophers of science, particularly of genetics and other biological sciences, explore mapping, which is the basis of the metonymy metaphor for organizing genetic information, the other, better studied being modelling, based on knowledge and communication. Covering generally the first half of the 20th century, the seven papers discuss Mendelian genetics and linkage mapping; and mapping work, mapping collectives, and mapping cultures. Among specific topics are plant-breeding research in Central Europe about 1880-1910, and the ABO blood groups as an example of mapping the history and geography of genes in Homo sapiens. The other volumes consider later periods. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Hans-Jorg Rheinberger is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published numerous papers and books in molecular biology and the history of science, including a co-edited collection, The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (2000). Jean-Paul Gaudilliere is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Health (INSERM), Paris. His work has addressed many aspects of the history of molecular biology and of the biomedical sciences during the twentieth century. His contemporary research focuses on the history of biological drugs. He is the co-editor of Heredity and Infection: A History of Disease Transmission (2002).
