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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos

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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos - Haraway, Donna Jeanne, and Gilbert, Scott F (Foreword by)
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Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must ...

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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos 2004, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA

ISBN-13: 9781556434747

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