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.