Creager / Lunbeck / Wise Science without Laws

Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9024-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Science and Cultural Theory

A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Creager, Angela N. H.

Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Wise, M. Norton

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein

Weintraub, E. Roy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction / Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise 1

Part 1: Biology

Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber 23

Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny 46

Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard 59

The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period / Susan Sperling 73

Part 2: Simulations

From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology / Naomi Oreskes 93

Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 125

The Curios Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? / Mary S. Morgan

Part 3: Human Sciences

The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement / John Forrester 189

“To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems / Clifford Geertz 212

Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory / Josiah Ober 225

Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg 243

Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms / Mary S. Morgan 264

Contributors 275

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

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.