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Author: Susan Merrill Squier
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780822368724
ISBN 10: 0822368722
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
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
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
""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 *
Author Information
Susan 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.
