Nicole C. Nelson Model Behavior (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Model BehaviorCondition: NewEAN: 9780226545929ISBN: 9780226545929Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/04/2018Item Height: 24mmItem Length: 15mmItem Width: 2mmItem Weight: 454gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric DisordersDescription: Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today—but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow scientists, the general public, and even themselves that animal experiments are a good way of producing knowledge about the genetics of human behavior? In Model Behavior, Nicole C. Nelson takes us inside an animal behavior genetics laboratory to examine how scientists create and manage the foundational knowledge of their field. Behavior genetics is a particularly challenging field for making a clear-cut case that mouse experiments work, because researchers believe that both the phenomena they are studying and the animal models they are using are complex. These assumptions of complexity change the nature of what laboratory work produces. Whereas historical and ethnographic studies traditionally portray the laboratory as a place where scientists control, simplify, and stabilize nature in the service of producing durable facts, the laboratory that emerges from Nelson’s extensive interviews and fieldwork is a place where stable findings are always just out of reach. The ongoing work of managing precarious experimental systems means that researchers learn as much—if not more—about the impact of the environment on behavior as they do about genetics. Model Behavior offers a compelling portrait of life in a twenty-first-century laboratory, where partial, provisional answers to complex scientific questions are increasingly the norm.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Nicole C. NelsonGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Medicine, Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Model Behavior

Title: Model Behavior

EAN: 9780226545929

ISBN: 9780226545929

Release Date: 04/04/2018

Release Year: 2018

Subtitle: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric D

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Science Nature & Math

Topic: Society & Culture

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Publication Name: Model Behavior : Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Language: English

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Publication Year: 2018

Subject: Experiments & Projects, Life Sciences / General, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Psychopathology / General, Life Sciences / Zoology / Mammals, History

Item Height: 0.1 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 17 Oz

Item Length: 0.9 in

Subject Area: Science, Psychology

Author: Nicole C. Nelson

Item Width: 0.6 in

Format: Hardcover