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Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
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2007
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A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.
Author / Editor information
Angela N. H. Creager is Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965.
Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America.
M. Norton Wise is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the editor of Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science, also published by Duke University Press.
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“Science without Laws inspires with its breathtaking scope. Delving from ethology to economics, molecular biology to microhistory, the authors illuminate crucial congruences in the way experts make their cases. Generations of scholars have taken physics as their model for right thinking, in science and beyond. This volume demonstrates that we are all biologists now.”—David Kaiser, author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics
“Science without Laws is a superb book. It is a very strong collection, sharply defined yet impressive in scope and reach, rich in substance and deep in analysis.”—Arkady Plotnitsky, author of Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida
“[Science without Laws] offers an interesting and eclectic set of essays. . . . Consciously self-reflexive, these essays are model studies of model studies and exemplary narratives of exemplary narratives. The book itself is an exemplary collection of model essays for historians and philosophers interested in model systems, and will be an engaging read for anyone interested in the vicissitudes of practices and reasoning strategies in science without laws.”
-- Jacob Stegenga British Journal for the History of Science
“The range of scholarship represented here is vast, providing a valuable overview of models and cases (or what functions similarly, like exemplary narratives in history and psychoanalysis or ritual systems in anthropology) in a broad range of disciplines. . . . Sociology is not explicitly represented in this essays, but the implications for sociological knowledge are clear and significant, if also controversial. They merit serious consideration by all sociologists.”
-- Kathleen M. Blee American Journal of Sociology
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Contents
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Introduction
1 - Part 1 : Biology
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Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila
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Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning
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Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research
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The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period
73 - Part 2: Simulations
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From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology
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Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects
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The Curious Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative?
157 - Part 3: Human Sciences
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The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement
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“To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems
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Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory
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Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory
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Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms
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Contributors
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Index
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September 3, 2007
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9780822390244
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296
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