Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb & the Engineering Ideal in BiologyOxford University Press, 16 avr. 1987 - 260 pages The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography traces his career and convincingly argues that Loeb's desire to control organisms, manifested in studies of both reproduction and animal behavior, contributed to a new self-image for biologists. The author places Loeb's experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts, tracing his influence on the development of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology. |
Table des matières
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2 The Engineering Standpoint | 28 |
3 New American Environments | 55 |
4 Evolution and Experimentation | 70 |
Photographs | 92 |
5 The Invention of Artificial Parthenogenesis | 93 |
6 Investigating Animal Behavior | 118 |
7 The Problems of a Mechanistic Conception of Life | 130 |
8 The Loebian Influence in American Biology | 164 |
Notes | 201 |
Key to Manuscript Citations | 239 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology Philip J. Pauly Affichage d'extraits - 1990 |
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Fréquemment cités
Page 5 - I may mention, by way of an apology, that, in spite of the diversity of topics, a single leading idea permeates all the papers of this collection, namely, that it is possible to get the life-phenomena under our control, and that such a control and nothing else is the aim of biology.