{"product_id":"epigenetic-landscapes-drawings-as-metaphor-paperback","title":"Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Merrill Squier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevised 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 \u003ci\u003eEpigenetic Landscapes\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eCommunities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press; \u003ci\u003ePoultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e; and, as coauthor, \u003ci\u003eGraphic Medicine Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450067468466,"sku":"9780822368724","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/9639c050384c7097e67ec48829fa8a74.webp?v=1778779356","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/epigenetic-landscapes-drawings-as-metaphor-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}