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.

• Superior document: Clio Medica ; 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002,; Bayertz, Kurt,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Clio Medica ; 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Mikuláš Teich: A Biographical Sketch /; Business History: Cinderella, Prince Charming or Ugly Sister? /; Darwin’s Revolution /; The different faces of science: is genetics a social construct? /; Bare Heads against Red Hats: a Portrait of Paracelsus /; Science – Education and Culture. Ideas and Concepts of German Nineteenth Century Scientists /; Thomas George Hodgkins (1803–92) and the future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) /; Biology as Technology /; From the “Originary Phenomenon” to the “System of Pelagic Fishery”: Johannes Muller (1801–1858) and the Relation Between Physiology and Philosophy /; A Male Mind in a Female Body: Sexology, Homosexuality and the Woman Question in Germany, 1869–1914 /; The Naturalist Tradition: A Natural History /; Medicine, the Body, and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica /; Biology of Liberation: Some Historical Aspects of “Proletarian Race Hygienics” /; Credit and Resistance: Eijkman and the Transformation of Beri-Beri into a Vitamin Deficiency Disease /; Gout and Quakery; Or, Banks and Mountebanks /; Notes on Contributors /; Mikuláš Teich: Bibliography /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004418571
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edited by Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

For the last half century, Mikuláš Teich has made many eminent contributions to the histories of science, technology, medicine and society. His essentially Marxist historiographical stance has resisted the notion that science is an autonomous entity, and has instead stressed the interplay of the economic, the social and the scientific forces in history. At the same time, particularly in studies of biochemistry, he has emphasized the significance of the role of science and technology in modern economic change. In a career divided between Czechoslovakia and the UK, he has always been highly internationalist in his historical outlooks, combining what is valuable in Contentinal and British methods. This volume is to honour him on his eightieth birthday. Examining European developments since the sixteenth century, the essays, many by old friends and colleagues, cluster around themes close to his own personal scholarship and related to volumes which he has edited. The book is divided into sections on Questions of History; Scientific Lives; Disciplines; Natural History, and Science and Disease.