Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code

Name: Who Wrote the Book of Life? A History of the Genetic Code
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ISBN: 9780804734172

ISBN-10: 0804734178

ISBN-13: 9780804734172

Edition: 2000

Authors: Lily E. Kay

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The history of work on the genetic code (1953-70) is recounted here from the vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society.

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



The Genetic Code: Imaginaries and Practices



Spaces of Specificity: The Discourse of Molecular Biology Before the Age of Information



Production of Discourse: Cybernetics, Information, Life



Scriptural Technologies: Genetic Codes in the 1950s



The Pasteur Connection: Cybernetique Enzymatique, Gene Informateur, and Messenger RNA



Matter of Information: Writing Genetic Codes in the 1960s



In the Beginning Was the Wor(l)d?


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index