Epigenetic Landscapes

Susan Merrill Squier is Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Pennsylvania State University. Her many books include Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture and Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine, both also published by Duke University Press; Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet; and, as coauthor, Graphic Medicine Manifesto.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Figuring Development beyond the Gene  11. The Epigenetic Landscape  212. A New Landscape of Thought: Behind Appearance  513. Embryo  694. The Graphic Embryo  875. The River in the Landscape  1296. Designing Rivers  1617. "A Complex System of Interactions": Art Laboratory Berlin as an Epigenetic Landscape  183Conclusion. Anastomosis  205Notes  215References  241Index  259

"A largely insightful, informative and enjoyable read . . . an academic text as well as an insightful view into the remarkable melding of science and art." - Rebecca Rahimi (Science, Medicine, and Anthropology) "Squier deserves many thanks for opening up new vistas in the history of science." - Erik L. Peterson (Isis)