The Rise of Experimental Biology
An Illustrated History
Samenvatting
Peter Lutz, PhD, brilliantly traverses the major milestones along the evolutionary path of biomedicine from earliest recorded times to the dawn of the 20th century. With an engaging narrative that will have you turning "just one more page" well into the night, this book revealingly demonstrates just how the modern scientific method has been shaped by the past. Along the way the reader is treated to some delightfully obscure anecdotes and a treasure trove of rich illustrations that chronicle the tortuous history of biomedical developments, ranging from the bizarre and amusing to the downright macabre. The reader will also be introduced to the major ideas shaping contemporary physiology and the social context of its development, and also gain an understanding of how advances in biological science have occasionally been improperly used to satisfy momentary social or political needs.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
The Beginnings
Myth and Magic
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Early Greek Science
The Milesians
The Post-Milesians
The Soul. Summary
The Age of Plato and Aristotle
Plato and Theory
Aristotle and Observation
The Alexandrian Period: The Age of the Experiment and the Textbook
The Roman Period
Celsus
Pliny
Galen
The Dark Ages.
Islamic Science
Scholasticism and Science
The Renaissance: The Birth of Science
The Renaissance: The Birth of Experimental Biology
The New Physiology
Iatrochemistry
Iatrophysics
New Technology, New Physiology
The New World of the Very Small
Vital Air
Reaction and Opposition
The Enlightenment and Rational Biology
Rational Biology
The Emergence of Physiology
Transition to the 19th Century: Popular Science, Eccentric Science, and Romantic Physiology
Hunter and Spallanzani: The Last Great All-Rounders
The Science Museum: Collecting and Displaying
Romantic Physiology
The Consolidation of Experimental Biology
Respiration
Metabolic Chemistry
Internal Secretions
Renal Physiology
Digestion
Benefits
New Fields
Evolution and Physiology
Physiology Abused
Gullability
Reckless Intervention
Evolutionary Genetics and Social Repression
Today
What is Science?
Biology Today