Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Creager, Angela N. H.
2. Lunbeck, Elizabeth.
3. Wise, M. Norton.

Description

1. 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Science and cultural theory

Subject

1. Biology > Philosophy
2. Biological models

Contents

1. Redesigning the fruit fly : the molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber -- Wormy logic : model organisms as case-based reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Model organisms as powerful tools for biomedical research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard -- The troop trope : baboon behavior as a model system in the postwar period / Susan Sperling -- From scaling to simulation : changing meanings and ambitions of models in geology / Naomi Oreskes -- Models and simulations in climate change : historical, epistemological, anthropological, and political aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico -- The curious case of the prisoner's dilemma : model situation? : exemplary narrative? / Mary S. Morgan -- The psychoanalytic case : voyeurism, ethics, and epistemology in Robert Stoller's Sexual excitement / John Forrester -- "To exist is to have confidence in one's way of being" : rituals as model systems / Clifford Geertz -- Democratic Athens as an experimental system : history and the project of political theory / Josiah Ober -- Latitude, slaves, and the Bible : an experiment in microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg -- Afterword : reflections on exemplary narratives, cases, and model organisms / Mary S. Morgan.

Call number

1. JSE 07-1167

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Science without laws : model systems, cases, exemplary narratives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise.

Imprint

1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Series

1. Science and cultural theory

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

Added author

1. Creager, Angela N. H.
2. Lunbeck, Elizabeth.
3. Wise, M. Norton.

LCCN

1. 2007006303

ISBN

1. 9780822340461 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0822340461 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780822340683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0822340682 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JSE 07-1167