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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology

By Donna Jeanne Haraway

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1976
ISBN
0300018649, 9780300018646
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19900892 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
240\242
Topic
History
Time added
2018-06-22 23:53:22
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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 have a central metaphor. Acknowledgements - ix 1. Paradigm and Metaphor - 1 2. The Elements of Organicism - 33 3. Ross G. Harrison - 64 A Pioneer in the Construction of an Organismic Paradigm - 64 The Silliman Lectures - 94 4. Joseph Needham - 101 A Great Amphibian - 101 Mature Perspectives - 138 5. Paul Weiss - 147 From Fields to Molecular Biology - 147 The Living System - 188 6. Conclusion: Of Paradigms and Scientists - 188 References - 207 Index - 221

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