Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
Donna Jeanne Haraway
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.
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Année:
1976
Edition:
1st
Editeur::
Yale University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
240
ISBN 10:
0300018649
ISBN 13:
9780300018646
Fichier:
PDF, 18.98 MB
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english, 1976