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Auteur(s) : Müller-Wille, Staffan (1964-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg (1946-....)  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : A cultural history of heredity [Texte imprimé] / Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Traduction de : Vererbung : Geschichte und Kultur eines biologischen Konzepts

Publication : Chicago : University of Chicago press, cop. 2012

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-323 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Comprend : Heredity : knowledge and power ; Generation, reproduction, evolution ; Heredity in separate domains ; First syntheses ; Heredity, race, and eugenics ; Disciplining heredity ; Heredity and molecular biology ; Gene technology, genomics, postgenomics : attempt at an outlook.

Note(s) : Ouvrage traduit de l'allemand : "Vererbung : Geschichte und Kultur eines biologischen Konzepts". - Bibliogr. p. 263-301
"It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Müller-Wille and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments that brought about these changes. Müller-Wille and Rheinberger begin with an account of premodern theories of generation, showing that these were concerned with the procreation of individuals rather than with hereditary transmission. The authors reveal that when hereditarian thinking first emerged, it did so in a variety of cultural domains, such as politics and law, medicine, natural history, breeding, and anthropology. Müller-Wille and Rheinberger then track theories of heredity from the late nineteenth century--when leading biologists considered it in light of growing societal concerns with race and eugenics--through the rise of classical and molecular genetics in the twentieth century, to today, as researchers apply sophisticated information technologies to understand heredity ... What readers come to see from this exquisite history is why it took such a long time for heredity to become a prominent concept in the life sciences and why it gained such overwhelming importance in those sciences and the broader culture over the last two centuries."--Jacket

Sujet(s) : Hérédité -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet
Génétique -- Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  576.509 (23e éd.) = Génétique - Histoire  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226545707. - ISBN 0226545709 (rel.)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb43636679x

Notice n° :  FRBNF43636679 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)