Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos by Haraway, Donna Jeanne

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos

Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G....
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Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos by Haraway, Donna Jeanne

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos

€28,34

Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos

€28,34
Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 02/12/2004
Pages: 231
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.06w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781556434747

About the Author
Donna Haraway is perhaps our most advanced scientific storyteller. She locates the myths, metaphors, and tropes that underlie a technologically companionable physical world. Without abandoning scientific method--in fact, by embracing it in its fullest applicability--she exposes and also celebrates our scientific narratives as our clan story. In the process she 'outs' our most fundamental distinctions and unexamined paradoxes: nature/culture, wild/domesticated, molecular/organic, animal/human, body/gender, et al. Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields is the first chapter of Haraway's epic tale of Western science. When she names it 'metaphors that shape embryos, ' it should be clear that embryos also shape her metaphors, for she brilliantly illuminates the origin and dependence of each in each other. Donna Haraway is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.

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