Commentary: Visual Cultures,Publication Technologies,and Legitimation in the Life Sciences** |
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Authors: | Lynn K. Nyhart |
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Affiliation: | Department of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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Abstract: | This paper comments on five articles in the special issue “Circulating Images in the Life Sciences.” It sees the papers as unified by two themes. The first is their attention to the processes of legitimation. The second is the embedding of the images in textual cultures, which changed over time from the mid-nineteenth century to the very recent past, most notably with the recent advent of digital culture. |
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Keywords: | biology visual culture print culture digital culture natural history applied ecology aquaristics gel electrophoresis virology |
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