Daniel Navon
Biographic Data
| ID | 252240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Navon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Navon |
| SIGNATURE | NAVON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3426-2474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics
How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to bridge the infamously recalcitrant genotype–phenotype divide. The endophenotype concept emerged in mid-20th-century evolutionary biology/entomology and was briefly adopted in schizophrenia genetics in 1972 before virtually disappearing for a generation. Decades later, in the “postgenomic” …
Reiterated Fact-Making: Explaining Transformation and Continuity in Scientific Facts
Scientific facts are an essential element of modern life. Yet, despite an abundance of illuminating work in science and technology studies (STS), we lack a rigorous sociological framework for explaining how scientific facts emerge, gain traction, and then change over time. This article fills that gap. Drawing on Fleck ([1935] 1981), Haydu (1998), and a wealth of STS scholarship, I develop a comparative-historical approach called "reiterated fact-…
The Gene Didn't Get the Memo: Realigning Disciplines and Remaking Illness in Genomic Medicine
Human genetics has uncovered a vast trove of medically relevant changes in our genomes—variants and mutations that are both far more common and difficult to interpret than experts anticipated. What will this mean as we move into an era of genomic or "precision" medicine? For over a century the overriding goal of human genetics was to explain the inheritance of traits and conditions that hailed from disciplines like medicine, psychology, and crimi…
Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy
Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Truth in advertising: Rationalizing ads and knowing consumers in the early twentieth-century United States
Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare
Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population
This article builds on Hacking's framework of "dynamic nominalism" to show how knowledge about biological etiology can interact with the "kinds of people" delineated by diagnostic categories in ways that "loop" or modify both over time. The authors use historical materials to show how "geneticization" played a crucial role in binding together autism as a biosocial community and how evidence from genetics research later made an important contribut…
We are a people, one people: How 1967 Transformed Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity in Israel and the US
This paper examines how the "narrative-identities" of Jewish communities in Israel and the US were unified through the events surrounding Israel's 1967 war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Using a range of historical materials, I show how key elements of the two communities' identities were rearranged and untied through a new, shared narrative that linked the Holocaust, Jewish victimhood and Israel. I argue that the old Zionist narrative enabled the…
The trading zone of autism genetics: Examining the intersection of genomic and psychiatric classification
New modes of understanding and acting on human difference in autism research, advocacy and care: Introduction to a Special Issue of BioSocieties
The chromosome 22q11.2 deletion: From the unification of biomedical fields to a new kind of genetic condition
Genomic designation: How genetics can delineate new, phenotypically diffuse medical categories
This paper reports and discusses 'genomic designation' as a way of classifying people. In genomic designation the object of biomedical analysis--and the concomitant medical category that is subject to scientific, clinical, and social action--is delineated on a genomic basis, while the phenotype is decentralized and tabulated post factum. Unlike prominent sociological concepts such as biosociality or geneticization, where genetic proclivities for …
Genomic designation: How genetics can delineate new, phenotypically diffuse medical categories
This paper reports and discusses 'genomic designation' as a way of classifying people. In genomic designation the object of biomedical analysis--and the concomitant medical category that is subject to scientific, clinical, and social action--is delineated on a genomic basis, while the phenotype is decentralized and tabulated post factum. Unlike prominent sociological concepts such as biosociality or geneticization, where genetic proclivities for …
Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population
This article builds on Hacking's framework of "dynamic nominalism" to show how knowledge about biological etiology can interact with the "kinds of people" delineated by diagnostic categories in ways that "loop" or modify both over time. The authors use historical materials to show how "geneticization" played a crucial role in binding together autism as a biosocial community and how evidence from genetics research later made an important contribut…
The Gene Didn't Get the Memo: Realigning Disciplines and Remaking Illness in Genomic Medicine
Human genetics has uncovered a vast trove of medically relevant changes in our genomes—variants and mutations that are both far more common and difficult to interpret than experts anticipated. What will this mean as we move into an era of genomic or "precision" medicine? For over a century the overriding goal of human genetics was to explain the inheritance of traits and conditions that hailed from disciplines like medicine, psychology, and crimi…
Truth in advertising: Rationalizing ads and knowing consumers in the early twentieth-century United States
We are a people, one people: How 1967 Transformed Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity in Israel and the US
This paper examines how the "narrative-identities" of Jewish communities in Israel and the US were unified through the events surrounding Israel's 1967 war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Using a range of historical materials, I show how key elements of the two communities' identities were rearranged and untied through a new, shared narrative that linked the Holocaust, Jewish victimhood and Israel. I argue that the old Zionist narrative enabled the…
Reiterated Fact-Making: Explaining Transformation and Continuity in Scientific Facts
Scientific facts are an essential element of modern life. Yet, despite an abundance of illuminating work in science and technology studies (STS), we lack a rigorous sociological framework for explaining how scientific facts emerge, gain traction, and then change over time. This article fills that gap. Drawing on Fleck ([1935] 1981), Haydu (1998), and a wealth of STS scholarship, I develop a comparative-historical approach called "reiterated fact-…
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Genomic designation: How genetics can delineate new, phenotypically diffuse medical categories
This paper reports and discusses 'genomic designation' as a way of classifying people. In genomic designation the object of biomedical analysis--and the concomitant medical category that is subject to scientific, clinical, and social action--is delineated on a genomic basis, while the phenotype is decentralized and tabulated post factum. Unlike prominent sociological concepts such as biosociality or geneticization, where genetic proclivities for …
The chromosome 22q11.2 deletion: From the unification of biomedical fields to a new kind of genetic condition
The trading zone of autism genetics: Examining the intersection of genomic and psychiatric classification
New modes of understanding and acting on human difference in autism research, advocacy and care: Introduction to a Special Issue of BioSocieties
We are a people, one people: How 1967 Transformed Holocaust Memory and Jewish Identity in Israel and the US
This paper examines how the "narrative-identities" of Jewish communities in Israel and the US were unified through the events surrounding Israel's 1967 war with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Using a range of historical materials, I show how key elements of the two communities' identities were rearranged and untied through a new, shared narrative that linked the Holocaust, Jewish victimhood and Israel. I argue that the old Zionist narrative enabled the…
Secrecy and Science: A Historical Sociology of Biological and Chemical Warfare
Looping Genomes: Diagnostic Change and the Genetic Makeup of the Autism Population
This article builds on Hacking's framework of "dynamic nominalism" to show how knowledge about biological etiology can interact with the "kinds of people" delineated by diagnostic categories in ways that "loop" or modify both over time. The authors use historical materials to show how "geneticization" played a crucial role in binding together autism as a biosocial community and how evidence from genetics research later made an important contribut…
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Truth in advertising: Rationalizing ads and knowing consumers in the early twentieth-century United States
Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy
Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy
The Gene Didn't Get the Memo: Realigning Disciplines and Remaking Illness in Genomic Medicine
Human genetics has uncovered a vast trove of medically relevant changes in our genomes—variants and mutations that are both far more common and difficult to interpret than experts anticipated. What will this mean as we move into an era of genomic or "precision" medicine? For over a century the overriding goal of human genetics was to explain the inheritance of traits and conditions that hailed from disciplines like medicine, psychology, and crimi…
Reiterated Fact-Making: Explaining Transformation and Continuity in Scientific Facts
Scientific facts are an essential element of modern life. Yet, despite an abundance of illuminating work in science and technology studies (STS), we lack a rigorous sociological framework for explaining how scientific facts emerge, gain traction, and then change over time. This article fills that gap. Drawing on Fleck ([1935] 1981), Haydu (1998), and a wealth of STS scholarship, I develop a comparative-historical approach called "reiterated fact-…
A Postgenomic Quilt: The Turn to Endophenotypes and Deep Phenotyping in Human Genetics
How do experts stitch together seemingly irreconcilable scientific objects? This paper examines the way “endophenotypes” and “deep phenotyping” are deployed to bridge the infamously recalcitrant genotype–phenotype divide. The endophenotype concept emerged in mid-20th-century evolutionary biology/entomology and was briefly adopted in schizophrenia genetics in 1972 before virtually disappearing for a generation. Decades later, in the “postgenomic” …
Sociology (7 works) · Biology (6 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Genetics (4 works) · Genome (4 works) · Genomics and Rare Diseases (4 works) · Autism (3 works)