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Science without laws : model systems, cases, exemplary narratives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Science and cultural theory.
- Science and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological models.
- Biology--Philosophy.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035462
- 9781283035460
- 1283035464
- 9780822390244
- 0822390248
- OCLC:
- 262341480
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