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Controlling Life

Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Gebonden Engels 1987 9780195042443
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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 Loeb's career, and places his experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts.

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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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