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Metaphors and other slippery creatures
The British Journal for the History of Science ( IF 0.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 , DOI: 10.1017/s0007087419000438
James E Strick 1
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What are cells? How are they related to each other and to the organism as a whole? These questions have exercised biology since Schleiden and Schwann (1838-1839) first proposed cells as the key units of structure and function of all living things. But how do we try to understand them? Through new technologies like the achromatic microscope and the electron microscope. But just as importantly, through the metaphors our culture has made available to biologists in different periods and places. These two new volumes provide interesting history and philosophy of the development of cell biology. Reynolds surveys the field's changing conceptual structure by examining the varied panoply of changing metaphors used to conceptualize and explain cells - from cells as empty boxes, as building blocks, to individual organisms, to chemical factories, and through many succeeding metaphors up to one with great currency today: cells as social creatures in communication with others in their community. There is some of this approach in the Visions edited collection as well. But this collection also includes rich material on the technologies used to visualize cells and their dialectical relationship with the epistemology of the emerging distinct discipline of cell biology. This volume centres on, but is not limited to, 'reflections inspired by [E.V.] Cowdry's [1924 volume] General Cytology'; it benefits from a conference on the Cowdry volume as well as a 2011 Marine Biological Lab/Arizona State University workshop on the history of cell biology.

中文翻译:

隐喻和其他狡猾的生物

什么是细胞?它们彼此之间以及与整个有机体之间的关系如何?自从 Schleiden 和 Schwann (1838-1839) 首次提出细胞是所有生物的结构和功能的关键单位以来,这些问题就一直困扰着生物学。但是我们如何尝试去理解它们呢?通过消色差显微镜和电子显微镜等新技术。但同样重要的是,通过我们的文化为不同时期和不同地方的生物学家提供的隐喻。这两本新卷提供了有趣的细胞生物学发展历史和哲学。雷诺兹通过检查用于概念化和解释细胞的各种不断变化的隐喻来调查该领域不断变化的概念结构——从作为空盒子的细胞、作为构建块的细胞到个体有机体、到化学工厂,并通过许多成功的隐喻直到今天非常流行:细胞作为社会生物与社区中的其他人交流。在 Visions 编辑的集合中也有一些这种方法。但该系列还包括有关用于可视化细胞的技术及其与新兴的独特细胞生物学学科的认识论的辩证关系的丰富材料。本卷以但不限于“受 [EV] Cowdry 的 [1924 年卷] General Cytology 启发的反思”;它受益于 Cowdry 卷的会议以及 2011 年海洋生物实验室/亚利桑那州立大学关于细胞生物学历史的研讨会。在 Visions 编辑的集合中也有一些这种方法。但该系列还包括有关用于可视化细胞的技术及其与新兴的独特细胞生物学学科的认识论的辩证关系的丰富材料。本卷以但不限于“受 [EV] Cowdry 的 [1924 年卷] General Cytology 启发的反思”;它受益于 Cowdry 卷的会议以及 2011 年海洋生物实验室/亚利桑那州立大学关于细胞生物学历史的研讨会。在 Visions 编辑的集合中也有一些这种方法。但该系列还包括有关用于可视化细胞的技术及其与新兴的独特细胞生物学学科的认识论的辩证关系的丰富材料。本卷以但不限于“受 [EV] Cowdry 的 [1924 年卷] General Cytology 启发的反思”;它受益于 Cowdry 卷的会议以及 2011 年海洋生物实验室/亚利桑那州立大学关于细胞生物学历史的研讨会。但不限于“受 [EV] Cowdry 的 [1924 年卷] General Cytology 启发的反思”;它受益于 Cowdry 卷的会议以及 2011 年海洋生物实验室/亚利桑那州立大学关于细胞生物学历史的研讨会。但不限于“受 [EV] Cowdry 的 [1924 年卷] General Cytology 启发的反思”;它受益于 Cowdry 卷的会议以及 2011 年海洋生物实验室/亚利桑那州立大学关于细胞生物学历史的研讨会。
更新日期:2019-06-01
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