Controlling life : Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology /

The biologist Jaques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pauly, Philip J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.
Series:Monographs on the history and philosophy of biology.
Subjects:
Loeb, Jacques, > 1859-1924.
Loeb, Jacques.
Biologists > United States > Biography.
Biology > Philosophy > History.
Biologie > Philosophie > Histoire.
Biologistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Biologists.
Biology > Philosophy.
Biologie
United States.
United States > Biology > Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Shaping of a Biologist
  • 2. The Engineering Standpoint
  • 3. New American Environments
  • 4. Evolution and Experimentation
  • 5. The Invention of Artificial Parthenogenesis
  • 6. Investigating Animal Behavior
  • 7. The Problems of a Mechanistic Conception of Life
  • 8. The Loebian Influence in American Biology.

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