Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-19-504244-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology

The biologist Jaques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This scientific biography traces Loeb's career, and places his experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pauly, Philip J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Taxonomie und Systematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; The shaping of a biologist; The engineering standpoint; New American environments; Evolution and experimentation; The invention of artificial parthenogenesis; Investigating animal behavior; The problems of a mechanistic conception of life; The Loebian influence in American biology; Notes; Key to manuscript citations; Index; Photographs.