Keller, Evelyn Fox.

Refiguring life : metaphors of twentieth-century biology / Evelyn Fox Keller. - New York : Columbia University Press, c1995. - xix, 134 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. - The Wellek Library lectures series at the University of California, Irvine . - Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-129) and index.

Language and science: genetics, embryology, and the discourse of gene action -- Molecules, messages, and memory: life and the second law -- The Body of a new machine: situating the organism between telegraphs and computers.

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Genetics--History
Biology--Technological innovations

QH428

575.1/09