Book ID: CBB524640115

Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor (2017)

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Squier, Susan Merrill (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 280
Language: English

Devised 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.

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Review Andrew S. Yang (2018) Review of "Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 875-877). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Nicoglou, Antonine
Faillaci, Francesca
Saulnier, Katie Michelle
Joly, Yann
Casini, Silvia
Suporas, Charles
Concepts
Epigenetics
Genetics
Biology
Life sciences
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Developmental biology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Modern
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Russia
Europe
Austria
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