Refiguring life : metaphors of twentieth-century biology / Evelyn Fox Keller.
Refiguring life : metaphors of twentieth-century biology / Evelyn Fox Keller.
Refiguring life : metaphors of twentieth-century biology / Evelyn Fox Keller.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1995.
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T0387182
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English
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xix, 134 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents
1. Language and Science: Genetics, Embryology, and the Discourse of Gene Action -- 2. Molecules, Messages, and Memory: Life and the Second Law -- 3. The Body of a New Machine: Situating the Organism Between Telegraphs and Computers.
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New York : Columbia University Press, c1995.
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New York (State)
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c1995.
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Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact...
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Refiguring life : metaphors of twentieth-century biology / Evelyn Fox Keller.
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The Wellek library lectures series at the University of California, Irvine.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-129) and index.
Transferred from N575.109/5.
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c1995.
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T0387182
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74VvZ2DKm8xZ
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0231102046
9780231102049
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575.109
576.509
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991004478289702626
