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What genes can't do / Lenny Moss.
Holman Biotech Commons QH430 .M674 2003
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Veterinary: Atwood Library (Campus) QH430 .M674 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moss, Lenny.
- Series:
- Basic bioethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetics--Philosophy.
- Genetics.
- Biological Science Disciplines--trends.
- Philosophy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Genetics.
- Biological Science Disciplines--trends.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A historical and critical analysis of the concept of the gene that attempts to provide new perspectives and metaphors for the transformation of biology and its philosophy.
- Contents:
- 1 Genesis of the Gene 1
- 2 The Rhetoric of Life and the Life of Rhetoric 51
- 3 A Critique of Pure (Genetic) Information 75
- 4 Dialectics of Disorder: Normalization and Pathology as Process 117
- 5 After the Gene 183.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford Book"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 026213411X
- OCLC:
- 48399138
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