|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910973065303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Shea Elizabeth Parthenia <1966-> |
|
|
Titolo |
How the gene got its groove : figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real / / Elizabeth Parthenia Shea |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2008 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
9780791478516 |
0791478513 |
9781435648487 |
143564848X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (148 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Genetics |
Communication in science - Philosophy |
Rhetoric - Philosophy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Gene origin stories -- Prescribing rhetorical work : genetic theories, gemmules, and genes -- Genes on Main street -- Genes, figures, things, objects -- Figuratively speaking : genes, sexuality, and the authority of science -- Genome : the secret of how tropes work in the life sciences. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|