Science without laws : model systems, cases, exemplary narratives / edited by Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise.

Other author Creager, Angela N. H.
Other author Lunbeck, Elizabeth.
Other author Wise, M. Norton.
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Description287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesScience and cultural theory
Science and cultural theory. ^A446465
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007006303
ISBN9780822340461 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822340461 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822340683 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822340682 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QH324.8 .S25 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold