Shea, Elizabeth Parthenia <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access : Internet 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781435648487 (electronic bk.) 143564848X (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Genetics<br/>Communication in science--Philosophy<br/>Rhetoric--Philosophy