Shaping Science with Rhetoric. The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrdinger, and Wilson
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001
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- Shaping Science with Rhetoric. The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrdinger, and Wilson
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- Ceccarelli, Leah
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- University of Chicago Press, Chicago
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- 2001
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In Shaping Science with Rhetoric, Leah Ceccarelli addresses such questions through close readings of three scientific monographs in their historical contexts—Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (1937), which inspired the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology; Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? (1944), which catalyzed the field of molecular biology; and Edward O. Wilson's Consilience (1998), a so far not entirely successful attempt to unite the social and biological sciences. She examines the rhetorical strategies used in each book and evaluates which worked best, based on the reviews and scientific papers that followed in their wake.
Ceccarelli's work will be important for anyone interested in how interdisciplinary fields are formed, from historians and rhetoricians of science to scientists themselves.
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