Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1 : Biology
5. Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila 23
6. Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning 46
7. Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research 59
8. The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period 73
9. Part 2: Simulations
10. From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology 93
11. Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects 125
12. The Curious Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? 157
13. Part 3: Human Sciences
14. The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement 189
15. “To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems 212
16. Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory 225
17. Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory 243
18. Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms 264
19. Contributors 275
20. Index 279