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Discovering life, manufacturing life : how the experimental method shaped life sciences /
This book tells the story of how thinkers, over time, have dared to explore using experimental devices and how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespread and accessible, ph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The roots of experimental science from ancient Greece to the Renaissance : 1. Scientific rationality in ancient Greece ; 2. The philosophical and technological heritage of the Middle Ages ; 3. Conclusion: At the dawn of the scientific method
- II. The birth of the expeimental method in the 17th and 18th centuries : 1. The discovery of the circulation of the blood by W. Harvey ; 2. How were the movements of the heart and the blood explained before Harvey? ; 3. The first, faltering steps of experimental science applied to living beings ; The experimental method and its impact on the physical sciences in the 17th century ; 5. Opening up chemistry to quantitative experimentation in the 18th century ; 6. Experimental science as seen by the philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries ; Conclusion: The marriage of techniques and ideas
- III. The impact of determinism in the life sciences of the 19th and 20th centuries : 1. The recognition of physiology as an experimental science in the 19th century ; 2. Determinism, the philosophical foundation stone of experimental physiology ; 3. The impact of technology on the life sciences in the 19th century ; 4. New disciplines in the life sciences in the 19th century and their methodological support ; 5. The idea of quantification in the life sciences ; 6. A new experimental order for the life sciences in the 20th century ; 7. Opening up biological experimentation to reductionism ; 8. The experimental method faced with contemporary trends in philosophy and in social life ; 9. Conclusion: Determinism and the expansion of the experimental method from the organ to the molecule
- IV. Challenges for experimentation on living beings at the dawn of the 21st century : 1. The accession of of biotechnology towards a new paradigm for the experimental method ; 2. Towards a mastery of the functions of living beings for utiltarian purposes ; The progress of medicine face to face with the experimental method ; 4. Towards a global understanding of the functions of living beings ; 5. The design and meaning of words in in the experimental process ; 6. The experimental method, understanding of living beings and society ; 7. The place of the scientific researcher in the changing role of biotechnology ; 8. Conclusion: Looking at the present in the light of the past
- V. Epilogue.