Lessons from the living cell:the culture of science and the limits of reductionism
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Published: |
McGraw-Hill,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2002. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xix, 300 p.: ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: | 0071378200 (cloth) |
Index Number: | Q |
CLC: |
Q-02 Q2-02 |
Call Number: | Q-02/R846 |
Contents: |
Includes index. Beyond the central dogma -- What is it that makes something living? -- The uncertainties -- The meanings of reductionism -- Epistemon and Eudoxus -- The reductionist experimental program -- A real-life parable -- The lesson -- The making of a paradigm -- The experiments -- To be parallel or nonparallel -- The tests -- The call to authority. |