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On beyond living : rhetorical transformations of the life sciences / Richard Doyle.
LIBRA QH501 .D68 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Richard, 1963-
- Series:
- Writing science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life (Biology)--Philosophy.
- Life (Biology).
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- With careful readings of key texts from the history of molecular biology-such as those of Erwin Schrodinger, George Gamow, Jacques Monod, and Francois Jacob-the author maps out the complex relations between the practices of rhetoric and the technoscientific triumphs they accompanied, triumphs that bolstered a 'postvital' biology that increasingly elides and questions the boundary between organisms and machines.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [[163]-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804727643
- 0804727651
- OCLC:
- 35298636
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