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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series List
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction: Complexity, Contingency, and Controversy in Genomics
  10. Part 1. Producing the Genome
    1. 1. Challenges in the Early Years of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health: A Personal Retrospective
    2. 2. Unsung Contributors to the Human Genome Project: NIH Staff and Advisors
    3. 3. The NHGRI Genome Sequencing Cost Curve: An Indicator of Scientific Progress
    4. 4. History of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project
    5. 5. NHGRI Genetic Variation Program
    6. 6. Genome Technology Development Grants for the Human Genome Project and Beyond
  11. Part 2. Contextualizing the Genome
    1. 7. The Nature of Genomic Publishing
    2. 8. Europe and the Genome: An Overlooked Strategy for a Translational Genomics
    3. 9. Technological Change Driving Scientific Questions: Genomic Sequencing as a Case Study
    4. 10. Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI): Navigating Ongoing Productive Tensions
    5. 11. “Variations on a Theme”: A History of Errors and Polymorphisms in the Human Genome Project and Beyond
    6. 12. Transforming the Genome into a Clinical Resource: DNA, Data, and Algorithms in Medicine
  12. Part 3. Interpreting the Genome
    1. 13. The Difference Genomics Makes: Characterizing Human Differences After the Human Genome Project
    2. 14. The Trouble with Being “Socially Responsible”: Science, GWAS, and Sexual Orientation
    3. 15. Epigenetics in Public Health: Comments on the “From Cells to Society” Approach
    4. 16. When Eugenic Enhancement Meets the Myth of Genetic Reductionism
    5. 17. modENCODE and the Elaboration of Functional Genomic Methodology
    6. 18. The Cancer Genome Atlas Project: Data-Driven, Hypothesis-Driven, or Something In-Between?
    7. 19. Large-Scale Biology: Philosophical, Historical, and Computational Perspectives
  13. Contributors
  14. Index

Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics

Christopher R. Donohue and Alan C. Love, Editors

Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis

London

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