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Basic Bioethics Ser.: What Genes Can't Do by Lenny Moss (2002, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMIT Press

ISBN-10026213411X

ISBN-139780262134118

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038906942

Product Key Features

Number of Pages258 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWhat Genes Can't Do

Publication Year2002

SubjectEthics, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics

TypeTextbook

AuthorLenny Moss

Subject AreaScience, Medical

SeriesBasic Bioethics Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2001-056298

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal660.6/5

SynopsisThe idea of the gene has been a central organizing theme of 20th-century biology, and the Human Genome Project and biotechnological advances have put the gene in the media spotlight. In this text Lenny Moss reviews the history that led to the gene-centered approach of contemporary biology. He offers a critique of this approach and suggests an alternative to it. He also attempts to bring rhetorical analysis back into a productive encounter with empirical science. Moss identifies two distinctly different uses of the concept of the gene, Gene-P and Gene-D-genes as instrumental predictors of phenotypes and genes as developmental resources that specify possible amino acid sequences in proteins. The popular idea that genes provide the blueprints for organisms, claims Moss, arose from the incorrect conflation of these independently valid meanings of the gene., A historical and critical analysis of the concept of the gene that attempts to provide new perspectives and metaphors for the transformation of biology and its philosophy.

LC Classification NumberQH430.M674 2002