Evelyn Fox Keller

The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prominent historian of science considers how the opposition between nature (understood to be genetic or innate) and nurture (understood as acquired or environmental) came to be such an entrenched part of scientific and social ways of thinking.

---

"I know of no other publication that offers so concise and cogent an account of what 'nature versus nurture' refers to. Evelyn Fox Keller is at her best dissecting the assumptions and histories that have come to shape a particular version of biology, genes, and life."--Sarah Franklin, author of "Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy"

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347316
• ISBN-10: 0822347318
• Artikelnr.: 29989846

Autorenporträt

Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023) was Emerita Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was the author of numerous books, including Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines; The Century of the Gene; Reflections on Gender and Science; and A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. She has been awarded many academic and professional honors, including a Blaise Pascal Research Chair by the Préfecture de la Région D'Ile-de-France for 2005–07, membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nature and Nurture as Alternatives
2. Changing the Question to One that Does Make Sense-From Trait to Trait
Difference
3. From Individuals to Populations
4. What's to Be Done?
Notes
Bibliography
Index