How the Gene Got Its Groove

How the Gene Got Its GrooveTraces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century. Against a backdrop of the history of the gene as a scientific and a cultural icon, How the Gene Got Its Groove examines how "genes" function as rhetorical objects. Returning to Wilhelm Johannsen's original argument for the term, Elizabeth Parthenia Shea maintains that the gene was, first and foremost, a rhetorical invention, designed to

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This study focuses on these individuals’ transformative role in US foreign relations from the Eisenhower through the Ford administrations

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and the re-siting of well known cultural objects and institutions - such as the Guggenheim and Picasso’s Guernica - into new frames of reference

the possibility of science for extraterrestrial intelligences

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which had the optimistic subtitle "The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease

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This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career

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