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Controlling Life

Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology

9780195042443
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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 Loebs career, and places his experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts.
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OUP USA
85435
9780195042443
9780195042443

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Publication date
1987
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
256
Dimensions (mm)
161 x 243
Weight (g)
582
  • 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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