Contextualizing Systems Biology [electronic resource] Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology / by Martin Döring, Imme Petersen, Anne Brüninghaus, Regine Kollek.

This collective monograph aims at contributing to an improved understanding of the epistemic presumptions, sociocultural implications and historically backgrounds of the newly emerging and currently expanding approach of systems biology. In doing so, it offers empirically grounded, valuable and refl...

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Main Authors: Döring, Martin (Author)
Petersen, Imme (Author)
Brüninghaus, Anne (Author)
Kollek, Regine (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
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Variant Title:
Contextualizing Systems Biology: Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Understanding systems biology: a place for social science analysis
  • Basic concepts of systems biology as seen through systems bioliogist's eyes: metaphorical imagination and epistemic presuppositions
  • Systems oriented approaches in biology: system biologist's narratives of present, past and future
  • Systems biology, information technology and cancer research
  • Science policy of systems biology
  • Systems biology goes public: representations in German and Austrian print media
  • Back into future: the systems biology to come. .