Author: Rheinberger, Hans-Joerg
Title: Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 23x16cm, x,325 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: After All: An Epistemology of the Beginning; Experimental Systems & Epistemic Things; Out of Cancer Research, 1947-50; Establishing an In Vitro System of Protein Synthesis, 1949-52; Reproduction & Difference; Defining Fractions, 1955-55; Spaces of Representation; The Activation of Amino Acids, 1954-56; Conjunctures, Hybrids, Bifurcations, Experimental Cultures; Toward Molecular Biology: The Emergence of Soluble RNA, 1955-58; Historiality, Narration, & Reflection; Names Matter: Transfer RNA & Ribosomes, 1958-61; Play-off: Messenger RNA & the Genetic Code; Epilogue: Science & Writing.

Keywords: History of Science, Molecular Biology, Protein Synthesis, , , , , ,