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Reflections on Gender and Science

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Reflections on Gender and Science

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

Why are objectivity and reason characterized as male and subjectively and feeling as female? How does this characterization affect the goals and methods of scientific enquiry? This groundbreaking work explores the possibilities of a gender-free science and the conditions that could make such a possibility a reality. "Keller’s book opens up a whole new range of ideas for anyone who cares to think about the history of science, that is, the history of the modern world. . . Let us be glad to be in times when such a sparkling, innovative. . . book can be produced, a book to start all of us thinking in new directions.”--Ian Hacking, New Republic "A brilliant and sensitive undertaking that does credit not only to feminist scholarship but, in the end, to science as well.”--Barbara Ehrenreich, Mother Jones "This book represents the expression of a particular feminist perspective made all the more compelling by Keller’s evident commitment to and understanding of science. As a lively and important contribution to the scholarship of science, it will undoubtedly stimulate argument and controversy.”--Helen Longino, Texas Humanist "Provocative arguments, presented with authority.”--Kirkus Reviews "Consistently thoughtful, provocative, and interconnected. . . A well-made book that will be useful in upper-level undergraduate and graduate women’s studies, philosophy, and history of science.”--E.C. Patterson, Choice "Written with grace and clarity, [this book] will stand as an important contribution to feminist theory, to the sociology of knowledge and to the continuing critique of the established scientific method.”--Lillian B. Rubin "A powerful book.”--Jessie Bernard

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0300153619

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9780300153613

Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

Essays on Science and Culture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Essays on Science and Culture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science.

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Routledge

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1317857216

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Refiguring Life

Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Refiguring Life

Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

Refiguring Life begins with the history of genetics and embryology, showing how discipline-based metaphors have directed scientists' search for evidence. Keller continues with an exploration of the border traffic between biology and physics, focusing on the question of life and the law of increasing entropy. In a final section she traces the impact of new metaphors, born of the computer revolution, on the course of biological research. Keller shows how these metaphors began as objects of contestation between competing visions of the life sciences, how they came to be recast and appropriated by already established research agendas, and how in the process they ultimately came to subvert those same agendas. Refiguring Life explains how the metaphors and machinery of research are not merely the products of scientific discovery but actually work together to map out the territory along which new metaphors and machines can be constructed. Through their dynamic interaction, Keller points out, they define the realm of the possible in science. Drawing on a remarkable spectrum of theoretical work ranging from Schroedinger to French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Refiguring Life fuses issues already prominent in the humanities and social sciences with those in the physical and natural sciences, transgressing disciplinary boundaries to offer a broad view of the natural sciences as a whole. Moving gracefully from genetics to embryology, from physics to biology, from cyberscience to molecular biology, Evelyn Fox Keller demonstrates that scientific inquiry cannot pretend to stand apart from the issues and concerns of the larger society in which it exists.

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Columbia University Press

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0231102054

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Conflicts in Feminism

By: Marianne Hirsch,Evelyn Fox Keller

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Conflicts in Feminism

By: Marianne Hirsch,Evelyn Fox Keller

Conflicts in Feminism proposes new strategies for negotiating and practicing conflict in feminism. Noted scholars and writers examine the most critically divisive issues within feminism today with sensitivity to all sides of the debates. By analyzing how the debates have worked for and against feminism, and by promoting dialogue across a variety of contexts, these provocative essays explore the roots of divisiveness while articulating new models for a productive discourse of difference.

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Routledge

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1135275254

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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

By: Philip Kitcher,Evelyn Fox Keller

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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

By: Philip Kitcher,Evelyn Fox Keller

A landmark work of environmental philosophy that seeks to transform the debate about climate change. As the icecaps melt and the sea levels rise around the globe—threatening human existence as we know it—climate change has become one of the most urgent and controversial issues of our time. For most people, however, trying to understand the science, politics, and arguments on either side can be dizzying, leading to frustrating and unproductive debates. Now, in this groundbreaking new work, two of our most renowned thinkers present the realities of global warming in the most human of terms—everyday conversation—showing us how to convince even the most stubborn of skeptics as to why we need to act now. Indeed, through compelling Socratic dialogues, Philip Kitcher and Evelyn Fox Keller tackle some of the thorniest questions facing mankind today: Is climate change real? Is climate change as urgent as the “scientists” make it out to be? How much of our current way of life should we sacrifice to help out a generation that won’t even be born for another hundred years? Who would pay for the enormous costs of making the planet "green?" What sort of global political arrangement would be needed for serious action? These crucial questions play out through familiar circumstances, from an older husband and wife considering whether they should reduce their carbon footprint, to a first date that evolves into a passionate discussion about whether one person can actually make a difference, to a breakfast that becomes an examination over whether or not global warming is really happening. Entertaining, widely accessible, and thoroughly original, the result promises to inspire dialogue in many places, while also giving us a line of reasoning that explodes the so-far impenetrable barriers of obfuscation that have surrounded the discussion. While the Paris Agreement was an historic achievement that brought solutions within the realm of possibility, The Seasons Alter is a watershed book that will show us how to make those possibilities a reality.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631492845

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Making Sense of Life

Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

By: Evelyn Fox KELLER,Evelyn Fox Keller

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Making Sense of Life

Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

By: Evelyn Fox KELLER,Evelyn Fox Keller

What do biologists want? How will we know when we have 'made sense' of life? Explanations in the biological sciences are provisional and partial, judged by criteria as heterogenous as their subject matter. This text accounts for this diversity.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039440

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The Century of the Gene

By: Evelyn Fox KELLER

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The Century of the Gene

By: Evelyn Fox KELLER

In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.

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Harvard University Press

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0674039432

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A Feeling for the Organism

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

By: Evelyn Fox Keller,Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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A Feeling for the Organism

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

By: Evelyn Fox Keller,Benoit B. Mandelbrot

McClintock, Barbara.

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W. H. Freeman

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071671504X

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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock's tireless analysis of corn led her to uncover some of the deepest, most intricate secrets of genetic organization. Nearly forty years later, her insights would bring her a MacArthur Foundation grant, the Nobel Prize, and long overdue recognition. At her recent death at age 90, she was widely acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in 20th-century science. Evelyn Fox Keller's acclaimed biography, A Feeling for the Organism, gives us the full story of McClintock's pioneering—although sometimes professionally difficult—career in cytology and genetics. The book now appears in a special edition marking the 10th anniversary of its original publication.

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Macmillan

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Reflections on Gender and Science

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by genes and the environment in determining individual traits and behavior. Keller is interested in both how an oppositional “versus” came to be inserted between nature and nurture, and how the distinction on which that opposition depends, the idea that nature and nurture are separable, came to be taken for granted. How, she asks, did the illusion of a space between nature and nurture become entrenched in our thinking, and why is it so tenacious? Keller reveals that the assumption that the influences of nature and nurture can be separated is neither timeless nor universal, but rather a notion that emerged in Anglo-American culture in the late nineteenth century. She shows that the seemingly clear-cut nature-nurture debate is riddled with incoherence. It encompasses many disparate questions knitted together into an indissoluble tangle, and it is marked by a chronic ambiguity in language. There is little consensus about the meanings of terms such as nature, nurture, gene, and environment. Keller suggests that contemporary genetics can provide a more appropriate, precise, and useful vocabulary, one that might help put an end to the confusion surrounding the nature-nurture controversy.

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Duke University Press

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082239281X

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Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

Essays on Science and Culture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

Essays on Science and Culture

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Conflicts in Feminism

By: Marianne Hirsch,Evelyn Fox Keller

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Conflicts in Feminism

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Making Sense of Life

Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

By: Evelyn Fox KELLER,Evelyn Fox Keller

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Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines

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Harvard University Press

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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition

The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

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The Century of the Gene

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Refiguring Life

Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology

By: Evelyn Fox Keller

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Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology

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The Seasons Alter: How to Save Our Planet in Six Acts

By: Philip Kitcher,Evelyn Fox Keller

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By: Philip Kitcher,Evelyn Fox Keller

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Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

By: Paola Govoni,Zelda Alice Franceschi

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Writing about Lives in Science

(Auto)Biography, Gender, and Genre

By: Paola Govoni,Zelda Alice Franceschi

Following discussions on scientific biography carried out over the past few decades, this book proposes a kaleidoscopic survey of the uses of biography as a tool to understand science and its context. It offers food for thought on the role played by the gender of the biographer and the biographee in the process of writing. To provide orientation in such a challenging field, some of the authors have accepted to write about their own professional experience while reflecting on the case studies they have been working on. Focusing on (auto)biography may help us to build bridges between different approaches to men and women's lives in science. The authors belong to a variety of academic and professional fields, including the history of science, anthropology, literary studies, and science journalism. The period covered spans from 1732, when Laura Bassi was the first woman to get a tenured professorship of physics, to 2009, when Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider were the first women's team to have won a Nobel Prize in science.

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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine, Third Edition

By: Jeannette South-Paul,Samuel Matheny,Evelyn Lewis

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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine, Third Edition

By: Jeannette South-Paul,Samuel Matheny,Evelyn Lewis

Concise, evidence-based coverage of the diseases and syndromes most commonly seen in clinical practice A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE for 2011! CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment in Family Medicine is an easy-to-use guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of the full range of clinical conditions seen in primary care. The book covers all age groups--from pediatric to geriatric--and includes end-of-life issues. An essential clinical reference for house staff and practicing family physicians, the book is also great for USMLE Step 3 review, board certification, and maintenance of certification. Features Organized according to the developmental lifespan, beginning with childhood and adolescence and progressing through adulthood and senior years Complementary and alternative treatments included where appropriate Recommendations for both immediate and ongoing management strategies Numerous algorithms, charts, and tables encapsulate important information Conservative and pharmacologic therapies Patient education information Sections on Therapeutics, Genetics, and Prevention; Psychosocial Disorders; and Physician-Patient Issues NEW chapter on patient-centered medicine

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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine, Third Edition

By: Jeannette E. South-Paul,Samuel C. Matheny,Evelyn L. Lewis

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CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment in Family Medicine, Third Edition

By: Jeannette E. South-Paul,Samuel C. Matheny,Evelyn L. Lewis

Concise, evidence-based coverage of the diseases and syndromes most commonly seen in clinical practice CURRENT Diagnosis and Treatment in Family Medicine is an easy-to-use guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of the full range of clinical conditions seen in primary care. The book covers all age groups--from pediatric to geriatric--and includes end-of-life issues. An essential clinical reference for house staff and practicing family physicians, the book is also great for USMLE Step 3 review, board certification, and maintenance of certification. Features Organized according to the developmental lifespan, beginning with childhood and adolescence and progressing through adulthood and senior years Complementary and alternative treatments included where appropriate Recommendations for both immediate and ongoing management strategies Numerous algorithms, charts, and tables encapsulate important information Conservative and pharmacologic therapies Patient education information Sections on Therapeutics, Genetics, and Prevention; Psychosocial Disorders; and Physician-Patient Issues NEW chapter on patient-centered medicine

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