Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome, by Sarah Richardson, Hallam Stevens
n the decade following the controversy surrounding the completion of the Human Genome Project, genomics realized neither the promises of personalized genetic medicine nor the fears of a genetic brave new world. Instead, as Sarah Richardson and Hallam Stevens suggest in their introduction to this fin...
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| description | n the decade following the controversy surrounding the completion of the Human Genome Project, genomics realized neither the promises of personalized genetic medicine nor the fears of a genetic brave new world. Instead, as Sarah Richardson and Hallam Stevens suggest in their introduction to this fine collection of essays, we have arrived at the beginning of a “postgenomic” era in biology and medicine. An ironic consequence of the intense study of genes has been the revelation that most of the human genome (99 percent by some estimates) does not “code” for any identifiable human traits. John Dupré reflects in his contribution that the relationship between genotype and phenotype has become even more fragmented the further it has been studied by genomics researchers. How are we to make sense, for example, of the substantial genomic variation among different kinds of tissues in the same body? The state of the art in genomics seems to have arrived where many science scholars started in the 1990s—profoundly skeptical of just what the study of genes can tell us. The rich contributions to this volume suggest the topography of this new postgenomic era for historians, social scientists, and philosophers. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1168132022-09-23T12:23:04Z Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome, by Sarah Richardson, Hallam Stevens Scheffler, Robin W Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Scheffler, Robin W n the decade following the controversy surrounding the completion of the Human Genome Project, genomics realized neither the promises of personalized genetic medicine nor the fears of a genetic brave new world. Instead, as Sarah Richardson and Hallam Stevens suggest in their introduction to this fine collection of essays, we have arrived at the beginning of a “postgenomic” era in biology and medicine. An ironic consequence of the intense study of genes has been the revelation that most of the human genome (99 percent by some estimates) does not “code” for any identifiable human traits. John Dupré reflects in his contribution that the relationship between genotype and phenotype has become even more fragmented the further it has been studied by genomics researchers. How are we to make sense, for example, of the substantial genomic variation among different kinds of tissues in the same body? The state of the art in genomics seems to have arrived where many science scholars started in the 1990s—profoundly skeptical of just what the study of genes can tell us. The rich contributions to this volume suggest the topography of this new postgenomic era for historians, social scientists, and philosophers. 2018-07-06T13:46:25Z 2018-07-06T13:46:25Z 2016 2018-06-04T19:37:48Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1086-3176 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116813 Scheffler, Robin Wolfe. "Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome ed. by Sarah Richardson, Hallam Stevens." Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 90, no. 2, 2016. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7789-7862 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/622074 Bulletin of the History of Medicine Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Muse - Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press |
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