Disciplinary baptisms: A comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and systems biology

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-32

  Powell, Alexander ^a   O'Malley, Maureen A ^a   Müller Wille, Staffan ^a   Calvert, Jane ^b   Dupré, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discipline formation; Genetics; Genomics; Molecular biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 43349099428     PISSN: 03919714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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