Angela N. H. Creager / Elizabeth Lunbeck / M. Norton Wise

Gebundenes Buch

Science Without Laws

Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

Herausgeber: Creager, Angela N H; Wise, M Norton; Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Beschreibung

This collection on case-based reasoning in the natural- and human sciences showcases some ways that scholars think with small instances while en route, or not, to more general laws.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 166mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340461
• ISBN-10: 0822340461
• Artikelnr.: 22882330