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Science without laws model systems, cases, exemplary narratives / [electronic resource] : edited by Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2007. - 287p.; 24cm. - Science and cultural theory .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Redesigning the fruit fly : the molecularization of Drosophila / Wormy logic : model organisms as case-based reasoning / Model organisms as powerful tools for biomedical research / troop trope : baboon behavior as a model system in the postwar period / From scaling to simulation : changing meanings and ambitions of models in geology / Models and simulations in climate change : historical, epistemological, anthropological, and political aspects / curious case of the prisoner's dilemma : model situation? : exemplary narrative? / psychoanalytic case : voyeurism, ethics, and epistemology in Robert Stoller's Sexual excitement / "To exist is to have confidence in one's way of being" : rituals as model systems / Democratic Athens as an experimental system : history and the project of political theory / Latitude, slaves, and the Bible : an experiment in microhistory / Afterword : reflections on exemplary narratives, cases, and model organisms / Marcel Weber -- Rachel A. Ankeny -- E. Jane Albert Hubbard -- Susan Sperling -- Naomi Oreskes -- Amy Dahan Dalmedico -- Mary S. Morgan -- John Forrester -- Clifford Geertz -- Josiah Ober -- Carlo Ginzburg -- Mary S. Morgan. The The The

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ISBN: 9780822340461 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822340461 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822340683 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822340682 (pbk. : alk. paper) = Science without laws

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA773047 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013888759 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Biological models.
Biology--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: QH324.8 / .S25 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 570.1