Ebook: Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology
Author: Donna Jeanne Haraway
- Genre: History
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- Year: 1976
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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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.
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