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Rendering life molecular : models, modelers, and excitable matter /

Natasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create, represent, and evaluate otherwise imperceptible molecules. These modelers often consider matter to be made up of living, moving, and sometimes breathing entiti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Myers, Natasha, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Experimental futures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Natasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create, represent, and evaluate otherwise imperceptible molecules. These modelers often consider matter to be made up of living, moving, and sometimes breathing entities, and Myers' study of them rethinks the objectivity of science.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-298) and index.
ISBN:9780822375630
082237563X