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How the gene got its groove : figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real / Elizabeth Parthenia Shea.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shea, Elizabeth Parthenia, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetics.
- Communication in science--Philosophy.
- Communication in science.
- Rhetoric--Philosophy.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Gene origin stories
- Prescribing rhetorical work : genetic theories, gemmules, and genes
- Genes on Main street
- Genes, figures, things, objects
- Figuratively speaking : genes, sexuality, and the authority of science
- Genome : the secret of how tropes work in the life sciences.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791478516
- 0791478513
- 9781435648487
- 143564848X
- OCLC:
- 232652208
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