Calculating life? Duelling discourses in interdisciplinary systems biology

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-163

  Calvert, Jane ^a   Fujimura, Joan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemic aspirations; Interdisciplinarity; Molecular biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENGINEERING; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORY; LIFE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; PHYSICS; SOCIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; KNOWLEDGE; LABORATORIES; LIFE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHYSICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIOLOGY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79954416531     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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