Controlling Life
Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology
Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 August 1987
- ISBN 9780195042443
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 243x160x19 mm
- Weight 579 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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.
This highly topical and and fascinating book deals essentially with the historical roots of biotechnology. Pauly weaves a rich fabric by integrating Loeb's career and his ideas into the social and political world of science and medicine in late 19th century Germany and early 20th century America...Recommended for college and university history of science collections.
Table of Contents:
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.
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