Table of contents
Part I.Metaphor in natural science and science education – an overview
Chapter 2.Social metaphors in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chapter 3.Coordinating metaphors in science, learning and instruction: The case of energy
Part II.Metaphor in science popularization – concepts of biology and
biochemistry
Chapter 4.Metaphor and the popularization of contested reproductive
technologies
Chapter 5.
To be or not to be: Reconsidering the metaphors of
apoptosis in press popularisation articles
Chapter 6.Non-verbal and multimodal metaphors bring biology into the
picture
Part III.Metaphors in specific fields of social sciences and the humanities
Chapter 7.Three metaphors in social science: Use patterns and usefulness, separately and together
Chapter 8.
The brain is a computer and the mind is its program
: Following a metaphor’s path from its birth to teaching philosophy
decades later
Conclusion: When metaphors serve scientific ends
Index