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The emergence of genetic rationality : space, time, & information in American biological science, 1870-1920 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thurtle, Phillip
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2007]
Series:In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Subjects:
Genetics > United States > History.
Genetics > Social aspects > United States.
Genetics > Economic aspects > United States.
Genetics > history > United States.
Capitalism > United States.
History, 19th Century > United States.
History, 20th Century > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Middle class mores: Beaufort's bastards
  • Breeding true: processing a new elite
  • The political economy of natural history
  • Homologous networks of exchange: the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange
  • Categorizing experience: space and time in nineteenth-century natural history
  • The Pacific Railway survey: the subject in the panoramic mode
  • Storied pasts
  • The plot thickens: the political economic dimensions of biological stories
  • Wandering and narrative
  • Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex
  • Writing, goods, and memory
  • Industrial perspectives: Luther Burbank
  • Record keeping: a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.