Contextualizing Systems Biology Presuppositions and Implications of a New Approach in Biology

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Döring, Martin, Petersen, Imme (Author), Brüninghaus, Anne (Author), Kollek, Regine (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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.