Test Tube Envy Science and Power in Argentine Narrative
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Bucknell University Press
- Publish date: 07/01/2005
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Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative examines the strategies by which Argentine narrative shapes scientific discourse and through which popular science determines narrative form over 150 years of the country's writing. It explores the construction and exercise of social power on and through scientific expression. The scientific disciplines considered range from nineteenth-century phrenology and ethnography to twentieth-century chemistry quantum mechanics, cybernetics and chaos theory.
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