Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish PDF
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UUnniivveerrssiittyy ooff PPeennnnssyyllvvaanniiaa SScchhoollaarrllyyCCoommmmoonnss Department of History and Sociology of Science Departmental Papers (HSS) (HSS) 2003 PPrroovveennaannccee aanndd tthhee PPeeddiiggrreeee:: VViiccttoorr MMccKKuussiicckk''ss FFiieellddwwoorrkk wwiitthh tthhee OOlldd OOrrddeerr AAmmiisshh Susan M. Lindee University of Pennsylvannia, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers Part of the Genetics and Genomics Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Technology Studies Commons RReeccoommmmeennddeedd CCiittaattiioonn ((OOVVEERRRRIIDDEE)) Lindee, M.S. (2003). Provenance and Pedigree: Victor McKusick's Fieldwork with the Old Order Amish. In Goodman, A.H., Heath, D., & Lindee, M.S. (Eds.), Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science beyond the Two-Culture Divide, pp. 41-57. Berkeley: University of California Press. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/27 For more information, please contact [email protected]. PPrroovveennaannccee aanndd tthhee PPeeddiiggrreeee:: VViiccttoorr MMccKKuussiicckk''ss FFiieellddwwoorrkk wwiitthh tthhee OOlldd OOrrddeerr AAmmiisshh AAbbssttrraacctt Provenance is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as the record of the "ultimate derivation and passage of an item through its various owners." The term is most commonly used to describe the history or pedigree of a painting—who has owned it, its value at various stages—but it also has a meaning in silviculture, in which it refers explicitly to genetic stock. Provenance, for forestry professionals, is the record of where a seed was taken and of a character of the "mother trees." In this essay I explore provenance in both sense, as a textual record of the origins of a given object (in this case a blood or tissue sample) and as a record of genetic stock. I focus on fieldwork, which creates a record of origins that can certify the authenticity and reliability of a particular pedigree, which then can acquire status as a form of scientific evidence. DDiisscciipplliinneess Genetics and Genomics | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Science and Technology Studies This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/27
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