emergence of genetic rationality
Subtitle: space, time, & information in American biological science, 1870-1920
By: Phillip Thurtle
Series: In vivo; In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780295987569; 9780295987507
Subjects: Genetics -- United States -- History; Genetics -- Social aspects -- United States; Genetics -- Economic aspects -- United States
Notes: "A Samuel & Althea Stroum book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-366) and index
Table of contents: title: Middle class mores: Beaufort's bastards; title: Breeding true: processing a new elite; title: The political economy of natural history; title: Homologous networks of exchange: the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange; title: Categorizing experience: space and time in nineteenth-century natural history; title: The Pacific Railway survey: the subject in the panoramic mode; title: Storied pasts; title: The plot thickens: the political economic dimensions of biological stories; title: Wandering and narrative; title: Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex; title: Writing, goods, and memory; title: Industrial perspectives: Luther Burbank; title: Record keeping: a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows