From physico-theology to bio-technology : essays in the social and cultural history of bioschiences : a festschrift for Mikulʹas̆ Teich / edited by Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.
Description
vi, 287 pages : illustrations.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Mikuláš Teich : a biographical sketch
    • Business history : Cinderella, Prince Charming or ugly sister? / Terry Gourvish
    • Darwin's revolution / Robert Proctor
    • The different faces of science : is genetics a social construct? / Benno Müller-Hill
    • Bare heads against red hats : a portrait of Paracelsus / Charles Webster
    • Science-education and culture, ideas and concepts of German scientists in the 19th century / Dietrich von Engelhardt
    • Thomas George Hodgkins (1803-92) and the future of research at the Royal Institute (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) / W.H. Brock
    • Biology as technology / Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers
    • From the "originary phenomenon" to the "system of pelagic fishery" : Johannes Müller (1801-1858) and the relation between physiology and philosophy / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
    • A male mind in a female body : sexology, homosexuality and the woman question in Germany, 1869-1914 / Katharina Rowold
    • The naturalists tradition : a nature history / Paul Farber
    • Medicine, the body, and the botanical metaphor in erotica / Julie Peakman
    • Biology of liberation : some historical aspects of "proletarian race hygienics" / Reinhard Mocek
    • Credit and resistance : Eijman and the transformation of beri-beri into a vitamin deficiency disease / Harmke Kamminga
    • Gout and quackery, or, Banks and mountebanks / Roy Porter
    • Notes on contributors
    • Bibliography of Mikulʹas Teich.
    Other title(s)
    Essays in the social and cultural history of biosciences
    ISBN
    • 9789042004917
    • 9042004916
    • 9042005017
    • 9789042005013
    OCLC
    41299370
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