..., and the relation between science and images of science on heredity. Three images of science connected to heredity are discussed: the image of the gene as an isolated entity, the image of information, and the image of map and mapping. 2013 With this essay, I would like to share with you a few reflections...

... level. Subcutaneous and visceral fat tissue explants obtained from severely obese women undergoing bariatric surgery and kept in culture showed rhythmic expression of circadian clock genes for two days after excision from the body ( Gómez-Santos et al. 2009 : 1481). Fat sleeps and wakes, cycles...

... of Herman, the genetically modified bull. A human gene was spliced into Herman to make cow’s milk more digestible by human babies. Public Culture 12(1): 173–175 Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press Drawing Blood in Papua New...

... of fantasy genes, a set of genes determining evolution and who we were, there was new knowledge about the correlation between diseases and genes, which was going to be taken up and used by people who were supposedly affected. With the AIDS epidemic, it seemed to me that the disease groups would...

..., or technical object. In the Dossier’s first essay, historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger tracks the changing uses and meanings of the gene over the past century, from early twentieth-century genetics to midcentury molecular biology to contemporary genomic mapping. As he notes, while the epistemic...

... neurotransmission patterns and genes. I heard all of this vituperative language about how social scientists had perverted the mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and thereby diverted attention from the “real problem.” The real...

... child also accompanied Maria, a quiet Latina who lives in the nearby public housing and whose older child is a general education (GenEd) PS X student. Matthew and Keiko shared leadership responsibility for the bake sale. Matthew directed volunteers to take small sandwich bags and begin wrapping...

... Cambrosio Alberto . 2012 . Cancer on Trial: Oncology as a New Style of Practice . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . 21 Keller Evelyn Fox . 2000 . The Century of the Gene . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . 22 Keller Evelyn Fox . 2010 . The Mirage of a Space...

... of substrateless but useful epistemic objects these three essays have posited: Rheinberger’s gene is losing its biological charter even as it has become a permanent fixture of biological intervention. Karlin’s bench-bedside- patients- practice series of domains, between which movement (through “pinch points...

.... The Bridge to Humanity: How Affect Hunger Trumps the Selfish Gene. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Goldstein, Jan. The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750 – 1850. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Gott, Richard. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivian Revolution...

... and safety of the Super Banana, while demonstrating its efficacy. The first act of translation was a sociotechnical process in which Dale extracted a gene from the Asupina banana from Papua New Guinea and placed it within the East African Highland Banana, or matooke . Dale used the gene from...

... . 0162243914542349 . Lowe Celia . 2010 . “ Viral Clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia .” Cultural Anthropology 25 , no. 2 : 625 – 49 . MacPhail Theresa . 2004 . “ The Viral Gene: An Undead Metaphor Recoding Life .” Science as Culture 13 , no. 2 : 325 – 45 . 10.1080/0950543042000262413...

.... Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Specter, Matthew G. 2010. Habermas: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Cambridge University Press. Stacey, Jackie. 2010. The Cinematic Life of the Gene. Durham, N.C.: Duke Uni...

... University Press. Wallach, Jeremy. 2008. Modern Noise, Fluid Genes: Popular Music in Indone- sia, 1997 – 2001. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Weil, Patrick. 2008. How to Be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789...

..., discipline, and vision of progress was British statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher, whose 1937 article, “The Wave of Advance of Advantageous Genes,” sought a more biological, hereditarian — and mathematically phrased — account of how wavelike changes might unfold in populations. Writing in the pages...

... to enable glucose from the bloodstream to enter the body’s cells, or both. Researchers have identified a variety of genetic subtypes and believe susceptibility to be inherited, but type 2 diabetes has not been tied to particular genes or a particular section of the genome.18 Despite...

... heart from breaking. My mother is sitting next to me with atrial fibrillation. Even though their genes are not my genes, I can’t shake this dull ache in my chest. Stella was the director of domestic adoptions at the small agency where I did the fieldwork for my book on adoption. Sometime in 2009...

... ways the leader, objects have become fairly thoroughly colonized by the market. Everything has a price, including blood, fame, information, body parts, athletes, and gene codes. Of course, the ideology of the marketplace in the United...

... that runs throughout this tract displaces the logic of reversal by interrupting the movement of the text with obscene imagery. The performance of “scatological embodiment” can be seen in Solanas’s first description of the male: “The male is a biological accident: the y (male) gene is an incomplete x...

... impossible to summon up in reality what has been summed up in thought, and that’s the intriguing and admirable thing about science. The Human Genome Project attempted to summon up in reality the belief that the human genome contained one hundred thousand or so individual genes. It proved impossible to summon...