Biology as society, society as biology
metaphors
by Sabine Maasen, Everett Mendelsohn, and Peter Weingart
The disciplines of biology and the social sciences share common roots in history and yet have drifted apart so much that the demarcation line between them has become a contested boundary.
The boundary between the 'natural' and the 'social' is shifting permanently. Moves in either direction are subject to ideological rhetoric. Yet there is continual exchange across the lines: Metaphors are moving freely between biology and the social sciences. As messengers of meaning they become agents of change, for ever undermining any attempt of fixing similarities and differences.
This collection of papers offers a unique look at the function of metaphors in mediating between two disciplinary cultures which represent and mold our views about nature and society, and the boundary between them. This book is of interest to professionals and students from history, philosophy and sociology of science, biology, and literary science alike.
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Biology as society, society as biology: metaphors
1995, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer
in English
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Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook)
March 31, 1995, Springer
Hardcover
in English
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0792331745 9780792331742
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