Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968)

de Cock W, Reinhardt C (2024)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 107: 118-127.

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de Cock, Wessel; Reinhardt, CarstenUniBi
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This article explores the emergence of molecular approaches in German genetic research during the 1958-1968 decade as a period of contingency and alternative possibilities. We introduce "Narratives of Contingency" as an analytical framework to examine how scientists construct a specific narrative - linking past experiences with expectations of future conditions - in order to outline and navigate pathway-decisions in the present. We apply this framework to Hans-Jorg Rheinberger's developmental model of molecular genetics and illustrate how the stages he identifies - the direction of the field, institutional developments, and epistemological demarcations - were already central themes in the comparative practices underlying narratives of contingency in this early period. Narratives of contingency can thus serve as a systematic framework for analyzing the processes through which new scientific fields, institutions, and epistemic horizons emerge, and possibly also for identifying historically plausible fork moments or alternative pathways not taken. Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Zeitschriftentitel
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Band
107
Seite(n)
118-127
ISSN
0039-3681
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2992790

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de Cock W, Reinhardt C. Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science . 2024;107:118-127.
de Cock, W., & Reinhardt, C. (2024). Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , 107, 118-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.06.010
de Cock, Wessel, and Reinhardt, Carsten. 2024. “Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968)”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 107: 118-127.
de Cock, W., and Reinhardt, C. (2024). Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 107, 118-127.
de Cock, W., & Reinhardt, C., 2024. Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , 107, p 118-127.
W. de Cock and C. Reinhardt, “Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968)”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , vol. 107, 2024, pp. 118-127.
de Cock, W., Reinhardt, C.: Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science . 107, 118-127 (2024).
de Cock, Wessel, and Reinhardt, Carsten. “Narratives of contingency and practices of comparing in the emergence of German molecular genetics (1958-1968)”. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 107 (2024): 118-127.

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