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Experimenting in tongues : studies in science and language

Leading scholars in the history of science address the historical, methodological, and ideological motivation behind scientists' use of language metaphors, such as "reading" the human genome, "rewriting" the genetic code, and developing programming "language."
Print Book, English, 2002
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2002
xii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780804744416, 9780804744423, 0804744416, 0804744424
48507724
CONTENTS 1. Dorries Matthias 2. Richards Robert J. 3. Suhr Stephanie 4. Keller Evelyn Fox 5. Geneva Ann 6. Licoppe Christian 7. Pfluger Jorg