Miguel García-Sancho
Biographic Data
| ID | 2817519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel García-Sancho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel |
| FAMILY NAME | García-Sancho |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA-SANCHO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5101-6027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA: By Strand D, Källén A, and Mulcare C, Cambridge, MA, London, The MIT Press, 2024
A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species from the 1980s to the recent past
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian
Reviewed by: Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian Miguel García-Sancho Soraya de Chadarevian. Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 272 pp. Ill. $37.50 (978-0-226-68511-3). In Heredity under the Microscope, Soraya de Chadarevian complements the picture of post-World War II biomedicine that she uncove…
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
“These Were Not Boring Meetings”: Miguel García-Sancho Talks with Karin Knorr Cetina
In this interview, Karin Knorr Cetina evokes the first Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science at Cornell University in 1976 as a foundational moment for science and technology studies (STS). This conference consolidated a new approach to the study of science based on the anthropological observation of scientists at work in the laboratory. Knorr Cetina argues that, despite geographically cementing in the United States, this ap…
Reordering life: Knowledge and control in the genomics revolution
In the late 1980s Stephen Hilgartner, now a leading STS scholar at Cornell University, started conducting anthropological work on what looked like an exciting biomedical endeavor: the mapping and s
Towards future archives and historiographies of ‘big biology’
The 20 th -century has seen the progressive rise of 'big science', especially after 1945.In the last seventy years, research has increasingly been conducted by large, interdisciplinary teams spanning different countries and institutions, and attracting generous funding by both public and private actors (Galison and Hevly, 1992).The first paradigmatic example of this way of doing science was the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb that even…
Genetic Information in the Age of DNA Sequencing
The claim that genes encode and transmit information is a central conceptual tenet in biomedicine. Historians have placed the origins of this claim in the rise of molecular biology after World War II, and philosophers still debate the utility of understanding genes as information for biomedical research. In this article, I will investigate how “genetic information” as both a concept and a model for experimental practice was affected by the emerge…
The proactive historian: Methodological opportunities presented by the new archives documenting genomics
Animal breeding in the age of biotechnology: The investigative pathway behind the cloning of Dolly the sheep
Bidirectional Shaping and Spaces of Convergence: Interactions between Biology and Computing from the First DNA Sequencers to Global Genome Databases
This article proposes a new bi-directional way of understanding the convergence of biology and computing. It argues for a reciprocal interaction in which biology and computing have shaped and are currently reshaping each other. In so doing, we qualify both the view of a natural marriage and of a digital shaping of biology, which are common in the literature written by scientists, STS, and communication scholars. The DNA database is at the center …
Academic and molecular matrices: A study of the transformations of connective tissue research at the University of Manchester (1947–1996)
This paper explores the different identities adopted by connective tissue research at the University of Manchester during the second half of the 20th century. By looking at the long-term redefinition of a research programme, it sheds new light on the interactions between different and conflicting levels in the study of biomedicine, such as the local and the global, or the medical and the biological. It also addresses the gap in the literature bet…
From the genetic to the computer program: The historicity of ‘data’ and ‘computation’ in the investigations on the nematode worm C. elegans (1963–1998)
Animal breeding in the age of biotechnology: The investigative pathway behind the cloning of Dolly the sheep
Bidirectional Shaping and Spaces of Convergence: Interactions between Biology and Computing from the First DNA Sequencers to Global Genome Databases
This article proposes a new bi-directional way of understanding the convergence of biology and computing. It argues for a reciprocal interaction in which biology and computing have shaped and are currently reshaping each other. In so doing, we qualify both the view of a natural marriage and of a digital shaping of biology, which are common in the literature written by scientists, STS, and communication scholars. The DNA database is at the center …
From the genetic to the computer program: The historicity of ‘data’ and ‘computation’ in the investigations on the nematode worm C. elegans (1963–1998)
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
The proactive historian: Methodological opportunities presented by the new archives documenting genomics
Academic and molecular matrices: A study of the transformations of connective tissue research at the University of Manchester (1947–1996)
This paper explores the different identities adopted by connective tissue research at the University of Manchester during the second half of the 20th century. By looking at the long-term redefinition of a research programme, it sheds new light on the interactions between different and conflicting levels in the study of biomedicine, such as the local and the global, or the medical and the biological. It also addresses the gap in the literature bet…
From the genetic to the computer program: The historicity of ‘data’ and ‘computation’ in the investigations on the nematode worm C. elegans (1963–1998)
Bidirectional Shaping and Spaces of Convergence: Interactions between Biology and Computing from the First DNA Sequencers to Global Genome Databases
This article proposes a new bi-directional way of understanding the convergence of biology and computing. It argues for a reciprocal interaction in which biology and computing have shaped and are currently reshaping each other. In so doing, we qualify both the view of a natural marriage and of a digital shaping of biology, which are common in the literature written by scientists, STS, and communication scholars. The DNA database is at the center …
Genetic Information in the Age of DNA Sequencing
The claim that genes encode and transmit information is a central conceptual tenet in biomedicine. Historians have placed the origins of this claim in the rise of molecular biology after World War II, and philosophers still debate the utility of understanding genes as information for biomedical research. In this article, I will investigate how “genetic information” as both a concept and a model for experimental practice was affected by the emerge…
The proactive historian: Methodological opportunities presented by the new archives documenting genomics
Animal breeding in the age of biotechnology: The investigative pathway behind the cloning of Dolly the sheep
Towards future archives and historiographies of ‘big biology’
The 20 th -century has seen the progressive rise of 'big science', especially after 1945.In the last seventy years, research has increasingly been conducted by large, interdisciplinary teams spanning different countries and institutions, and attracting generous funding by both public and private actors (Galison and Hevly, 1992).The first paradigmatic example of this way of doing science was the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb that even…
Reordering life: Knowledge and control in the genomics revolution
In the late 1980s Stephen Hilgartner, now a leading STS scholar at Cornell University, started conducting anthropological work on what looked like an exciting biomedical endeavor: the mapping and s
“These Were Not Boring Meetings”: Miguel García-Sancho Talks with Karin Knorr Cetina
In this interview, Karin Knorr Cetina evokes the first Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science at Cornell University in 1976 as a foundational moment for science and technology studies (STS). This conference consolidated a new approach to the study of science based on the anthropological observation of scientists at work in the laboratory. Knorr Cetina argues that, despite geographically cementing in the United States, this ap…
Between mice and sheep: Biotechnology, agricultural science and animal models in late-twentieth century Edinburgh
In this paper, we investigate the ways in which a group of scientists in Edinburgh worked across mice and sheep during the last quarter of the twentieth century. With this local episode, we show the utility of an interspecies perspective to investigate recent historical transformations in the life sciences. We argue that the emergence of animal biotechnology was the result of interactions between neoliberal policymakers, science administrators, m…
Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian
Reviewed by: Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome by Soraya de Chadarevian Miguel García-Sancho Soraya de Chadarevian. Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 272 pp. Ill. $37.50 (978-0-226-68511-3). In Heredity under the Microscope, Soraya de Chadarevian complements the picture of post-World War II biomedicine that she uncove…
A History of Genomics across Species, Communities and Projects
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the history of genomics across three different species from the 1980s to the recent past
Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA: By Strand D, Källén A, and Mulcare C, Cambridge, MA, London, The MIT Press, 2024
Biology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Data science (5 works) · Genetics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Genome (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Race, Genetics, and Society (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)