TY - BOOK AU - Rothman,S.S. TI - Lessons from the living cell: the culture of science and the limits of reductionism SN - 0071378200 U1 - 571.601 21 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill KW - Biology KW - Philosophy KW - Cytology N1 - Part I Reductionism: the human genome project and the genomics revolution; in theory and in practice; what is it that makes something living?; a very short primer on modern biology; the uncertainties; the meanings of reductionism - the large and the small of it. Part II Two witnesses examine the cell; life as a self-organizing system; epistemon and eudoxus. Part III Process and mechanism: the reductionist experimental program for the study of living systems; a real life parable; the lesson; the making of a paradigm; the experiments; to be parallel or non-parallel; the tests; the call to authority UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh024/2001034235.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0705/2001034235-b.html ER -