{"product_id":"crystals-fabrics-and-fields-metaphors-that-shape-embryos-paperback","title":"Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors That Shape Embryos - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonna Jeanne Haraway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eScott F. Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change into this wide-ranging analysis, emphasizing the role of model, analogy, and metaphor in the paradigm and arguing that any truly useful theoretical system in biology must have a central metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonna Haraway is perhaps our most advanced scientific storyteller. She locates the myths, metaphors, and tropes that underlie a technologically companionable physical world. Without abandoning scientific method--in fact, by embracing it in its fullest applicability--she exposes and also celebrates our scientific narratives as our clan story. In the process she 'outs' our most fundamental distinctions and unexamined paradoxes: nature\/culture, wild\/domesticated, molecular\/organic, animal\/human, body\/gender, et al. \u003ci\u003eCrystals, Fabrics, and Fields\u003c\/i\u003e is the first chapter of Haraway's epic tale of Western science. When she names it 'metaphors that shape embryos, ' it should be clear that embryos also shape her metaphors, for she brilliantly illuminates the origin and dependence of each in each other. Donna Haraway is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 231\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9.12 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 12, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771603779872,"sku":"9781556434747","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cec4c47ba09b3b8658a4d05487a619ad.webp?v=1780389325","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/crystals-fabrics-and-fields-metaphors-that-shape-embryos-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}