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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Historiographic reflections on model organisms: Or how the mureaucracy may be limiting our understanding of contemporary genetics and genomics |
Author: | Ankeny, R. |
Citation: | History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2010; 32(1):91-104 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 0391-9714 1742-6316 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. A. Ankeny |
Abstract: | Scholarship in the history of biology focused on model organisms has burgeoned along with the growth of the use of these organisms in genetic research in the closing decades of the 20th century. This paper draws on criticisms of model organism-based research, particularly the epistemological dangers of focus on a relatively limited number of species whose very development has become canalized through processes of standardization, to articulate the analogous historical pitfalls of these blinders for developing a fuller history of genetics and genomics. |
Keywords: | Animals Humans Models, Animal Genetics Genetic Research Human Genome Project Genomics Phylogeny Knowledge Biomedical Research Historiography History, 20th Century History, 21st Century |
Rights: | Copyright status unknown |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 History publications |
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