How the gene got its groove figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real /

Shea, Elizabeth Parthenia

How the gene got its groove figurative language, science, and the rhetoric of the real / [electronic resource] : Elizabeth Parthenia Shea - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008 - 1 online resource (x, 136 p.) : ill.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134) and index

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


Mode of access : Internet

9781435648487 (electronic bk.) 143564848X (electronic bk.)


Genetics
Communication in science--Philosophy
Rhetoric--Philosophy

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