Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts. Preprint 393. 13-15 January 2009.

Campos, Luis and Alexander von Schwerin (eds.):

Published by Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2010

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306 p., fig. A good and very clean copy. - Contents: Alexander von Schwerin & Luis Campos: The Making of "Making Mutations" -- Identifying Mutation -- Marsha L. Richmond: Women in Mutation Studies: The Role of Gender in the Methods, Practices, and Results of Early Twentieth-Century Genetics -- Luis Campos: Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant -- Jörg Thomas Richter: Generating Plants and Women: Intersecting Conceptions of Biological and Social Mutations in Susan Glaspell's 'The Verge" (1921) -- Thierry Hoquet: Non-Evolutionary Mutants? A Note on the Castorrex Rabbit -- Organisms -- Lisa A. Onaga: Tracing the Totsuzen in Tanaka's Silkworms: An Exploration of the Establishment of -- Bombyx Mori Mutant Stocks -- Matt Dunn: Supporting the Balance View: Dobzhansky's Construction o/Drosophila pseudoobscura -- Neeraja Sankaran: The First Bacteriophage Mutants: Changing "Genespeak" in the 1930s -- Karen Rader: Commentary on "Organisms" -- Populations -- William deJong-Lambert: Hermann J. Muller and the Biopolitics of Mutations and Heredity -- Tools -- Soraya de Chadarevian: Mutations in the Nuclear Age -- María Jesús Santesmases: Size and the Centromere: Translocations and Visual Cultures in Early Human Genetics -- Susanne Bauer: Tracing Mutations: Biodosimetry Tools in Post-Cold War Radiation Epidemiology -- Angela N. H. Creager: Commentary on "Tools": Radiation, Health, and Heredity -- Chemicals -- Alexander von Schwerin: Medical Physicists, Biology, and the Physiology of the Cell (1920-1940) -- Helen Anne Curry: Making Marigolds: Colchicine, Mutation Breeding, and Ornamental Horticulture, 1937-1950 -- Angela N. H. Creager: The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts. Preprint 393. 13-15 January 2009.
• Publisher: Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• Binding: Original brochure.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
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