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Podcast: New Books in Medicine
Episode: Susan M. Squier, âEpigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphorâ (Duke UP, 2017)
Description: Susan M. Squierâs book, Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor (Duke University Press, 2017)Â Â is about developmentâ biological and ecological. It explores how the media (paintings, films, graphics) that experts have created to understand development and to communicate without verbal language has shapedâand continues to affectâthe worlds in which we live.
Squierâs book takes its title from a set of images from the embryologist C.H. Waddington, all meant to demonstrate his theory of how life developedâas a dynamic process emerging within multiple scales of time and space. The first Epigenetic Landscape was, literally, a landscape pa...