{"product_id":"genomics-with-care-9781478017233","title":"Genomics with Care","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGenomics with Care\u003c\/i\u003e Mike Fortun presents an experimental ethnography of contemporary genomics, analyzing science as a complex amalgam of cognition and affect, formal logics and tacit knowledge, statistics, and ethics. Fortun examines genomics in terms of care—a dense composite of affective and cognitive forces that drive scientists and the relations they form with their objects of research, data, knowledge, and community. Reading genomics with care shows how each resists definition yet is so entangled as to become indistinguishable. Fortun analyzes four patterns of genomic care—curation, scrupulousness, solicitude, and friendship—seen in the conceptual, technological, social, and methodological changes that transpired as the genetics of the 1980s became the genomics of the 1990s, and then the “post-genomics” of the 2000s. By tracing the dense patterns made where care binds to science, Fortun shows how these patterns mark where scientists are drive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGenomics with Care\u003c\/i\u003e is an inventive, generous, funny, rigorous, and path-opening contribution to the anthropology of science that teaches readers new methods of understanding science as a vocation. Mike Fortun deftly fuses attention to the social affects and effects that accompany research in today’s molecular biology. This utterly splendid book reminds us what science and science studies are \u003ci\u003efor\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Stefan Helmreich, author of * A Book of Waves *\u003cbr\u003e“This brilliant and much-needed intervention into science and technology studies provides an affecting model for reading not just genomics, but the sciences in general. It opens a new path for thinking and writing differently in relation to the natural sciences. Indeed, it is a superb model for scholars and students who wish to read any text, community, or epistemology in a caring and critical way.” -- Elizabeth A. Wilson, author of * Gut Feminism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Poem-Like \u003ci\u003eTolls\u003c\/i\u003e 1: A Prelude  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Genomics, Double Binds, Affects\u003cbr\u003e 1. Fors  13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Labyrinth Life: Affect Excess Infrastructure  42\u003cbr\u003e 3. Double Binds of Science  80\u003cbr\u003e Poem-Like \u003ci\u003eTolls\u003c\/i\u003e 2: An Interlude\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Minding the Infrastructure of Genomics\u003cbr\u003e 4. Curation: Of Data’s Limits  111\u003cbr\u003e 5. Scrupulousness: Of Experiment’s Limit  141\u003cbr\u003e 6. Solicitude: Of Science’s Limit  183\u003cbr\u003e 7. Friendship: Of Community’s Limits  221\u003cbr\u003e Poem-Like \u003ci\u003eTolls\u003c\/i\u003e 3: An Appendix  253\u003cbr\u003e Postscript  259\u003cbr\u003e Notes  277\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  311\u003cbr\u003e Index  337","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409005617495,"sku":"9781478017233","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017233.jpg?v=1730505059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/genomics-with-care-9781478017233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}