Authors:Angela N. H.Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Angela N. H.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: science, narratives, cultural, theory, exemplary, cases, laws, model, systems
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822340682
ISBN-13: 9780822340683

Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, like those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects--such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes--or, as they are known in biology, "model systems." Across the natural and human sciences, other disciplinary fields have developed canonical examples that have played a

Author: Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: virus, model, experimental, tobacco, life, mosaic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0226120260
ISBN-13: 9780226120263

We normally think of viruses in terms of the devastating diseases they cause, from smallpox to AIDS. But in The Life of a Virus, Angela N. H. Creager introduces us to a plant virus that has taught us much of what we know about all viruses, including the lethal ones, and that also played a crucial role in the development of molecular biology.Focusing on the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) research conducted in Nobel laureate Wendell Stanley’s lab, Creager argues that TMV served as a model system for virology and molecular biology, much as the fruit fly and laboratory mouse have for genetics an

Authors:Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, Londa Schie
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: women, culture, society, series, medicine, technology, twentieth, century, science, feminism
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $81.00
ISBN-10: 0226120236
ISBN-13: 9780226120232

What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in technology, often providing the impetus for fundamentally changing the theoretical underpinnings and practices of such research. In archaeology, evidence of women’s hunting activit

Author: William P. Creager
Publisher: Hesperides Press
Keywords: vol, dams, engineering
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-11-12
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406717088
ISBN-13: 9781406717082

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Joan G. Creager
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Keywords: lane, slower, life
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2003-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1589393740
ISBN-13: 9781589393745

Retired or soon to retire? Want a glimpse of a less hurried, more reflective life? Joan Creager’s Life in a Slower Lane shows you what it feels like to be retired-its joys and frustrations, its pains and pleasures. Essays in this collection reflect on retirement and on personal and family experiences over the years. Some essays look at today’s challenging problems from the perspective of a retiree. Essay topics include: finding the right place to retire, getting a Medicare card, dealing with a hip replacement that went awry, making a granddaughter’s wedding dress, growing up

Authors:Mark A. Creager, Eugene Braunwald,
Publisher: Current Medicine Group
Keywords: disease, vascular, atlas
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-01
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1573401919
ISBN-13: 9781573401913

This second edition of the Atlas of Vascular Disease reviews a number of important vascular disorders that are encountered in clinical practice, including aortic aneurysms and dissection, peripheral arterial occlusive disease and lymphedema.

Authors:Marilyn Shear Goodman, Beth Creager Fallon,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: educational, program, women, abused, changing, pattern
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1994-11-28
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 0803954948
ISBN-13: 9780803954946

Designed for facilitators of groups for physically, emotionally and sexually abused women, this volume examines a programme that focuses on the woman herself and her power to change the course of her life. The book is based on the accumulated experience of the authors and their continuing evaluation of groups they have facilitated over the past eight years. Both material for clients and easy-to-follow scripts for group leaders are included. Educational rather than therapeutic, the programme includes sessions on family roles, boundaries, feelings and assertiveness skills. It is designed to e