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Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Angela N H Creager
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Description for Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Paperback. A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences. Editor(s): Creager, Angela N. H.; Lunbeck, Elizabeth; Wise, M. Norton. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes—or, as they are known in biology, “model systems.” Across the natural and social sciences, other disciplinary fields have developed canonical examples that have played a role comparable to that of biology’s model systems, serving not only as points of reference and ... Read more
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes—or, as they are known in biology, “model systems.” Across the natural and social sciences, other disciplinary fields have developed canonical examples that have played a role comparable to that of biology’s model systems, serving not only as points of reference and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Science & Cultural Theory
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822340683
SKU
V9780822340683
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About Angela N H Creager
Angela N. H. Creager is Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965. Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. M. Norton ... Read more
Reviews for Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
“Science without Laws inspires with its breathtaking scope. Delving from ethology to economics, molecular biology to microhistory, the authors illuminate crucial congruences in the way experts make their cases. Generations of scholars have taken physics as their model for right thinking, in science and beyond. This volume demonstrates that we are all biologists now.”—David Kaiser, author of Drawing Theories Apart: ... Read more