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OverviewDevised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic research because of its utility among scientists across the life sciences to think more creatively about and to discuss genetics. In Epigenetic Landscapes Susan Merrill Squier follows the model's cultural trail, from its first visualization by the artist John Piper to its use beyond science. Squier examines three cases in which the metaphor has been imaginatively deployed to illustrate complex systems that link scientific and cultural practices: graphic medicine, landscape architecture, and bioArt. Challenging reductive understandings of epigenetics, Squier boldly reclaims the broader significance of the epigenetic landscape as a figure at the nexus of art, design, and science. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Merrill SquierPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780822368601ISBN 10: 0822368609 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 01 December 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene 1 1. The Epigenetic Landscape 21 2. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance 51 3. Embryo 69 4. The Graphic Embryo 87 5. The River in the Landscape 129 6. Designing Rivers 161 7. ""A Complex System of Interactions"": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape 183 Conclusion. Anastomosis 205 Notes 215 References 241 Index 259"ReviewsSusan Merrill Squier has great fun demolishing silos and rearranging their contents. Viewing the world through Waddington's 'Epigenetic Landscape,' Squier presents us with a feminist, interactionist, re-ordering of some of our dearest models of reality. Be ready to question your perceptions of human development, modern art, landscape design, graphic illustration, and the relations of science, art, and nature as you enter this fascinating book. -- Scott F. Gilbert, author of Developmental Biology ""A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art."" -- Rebecca Rahimi * Science, Medicine, and Anthropology * ""Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science."" -- Erik L. Peterson * Isis * Susan Merrill Squier has great fun demolishing silos and rearranging their contents. Viewing the world through Waddington's epigenetic landscape, Squier presents us with a feminist, interactionist, re-ordering of some of our dearest models of reality. Be ready to question your perceptions of human development, modern art, landscape design, graphic illustration, and the relations of science, art, and nature as you enter this fascinating book. -- Scott F. Gilbert, author of Developmental Biology In this stunning volume one of our most erudite and eloquent guides to the rapidly changing landscapes of the contemporary biological provides us with a timely and critical genealogy of epigenetics-one of the most important but elusive concepts in contemporary society. Everyone with an interest in the past and the future of biological concepts should read this book! -- Sarah Franklin, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship Author InformationSusan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. Her many books include Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, both also published by Duke University Press; Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet; and, as coauthor, Graphic Medicine Manifesto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |