Science without Laws
Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects-such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes-or, as they are known in biology, model systems. Across the natural and social sciences, other disciplinary fields have developed canonical examples that have played a role comparable to that of biology's model systems, serving not on…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8223-4068-3
- EAN: 9780822340683
- Produktnummer: 2999126
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 435 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 435
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