In:How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
Edited by Anke Beger and Thomas H. Smith
[Figurative Thought and Language 6] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 22 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.6.toc
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction
Editors
Anke Beger
Thomas H. Smith
Part I.Metaphor in natural science and science education – an overview
Chapter 2.Social metaphors in Cellular and Molecular Biology
Theodore L. Brown
Chapter 3.Coordinating metaphors in science, learning and instruction: The case of energy
Tamer G. Amin
Part II.Metaphor in science popularization – concepts of biology and
biochemistry
Chapter 4.Metaphor and the popularization of contested reproductive
technologies
Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
Chapter 5.To be or not to be: Reconsidering the metaphors of
apoptosis in press popularisation articles
Julia T. Williams Camus
Chapter 6.Non-verbal and multimodal metaphors bring biology into the
picture
José Manuel Ureña Gómez-Moreno
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
Thomas H. Smith
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
Anke Beger
Conclusion: When metaphors serve scientific ends
Editors
Thomas H. Smith
Anke Beger
Index
