From physico-theology to bio-technology, essays in the social and cultural history of bioschiences, a festschrift for Mikulʹas̆ Teich /

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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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 e...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Mikuláš Teich: A Biographical Sketch / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter
  • Business History: Cinderella, Prince Charming or Ugly Sister? / Terry Gourvish
  • Darwin’s Revolution / Robert N. 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 Nineteenth Century Scientists / Dietrich von Engelhardt
  • Thomas George Hodgkins (1803–92) and the future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) / William H. Brock
  • Biology as Technology / Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers
  • From the “Originary Phenomenon” to the “System of Pelagic Fishery”: Johannes Muller (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 Naturalist Tradition: A Natural History / Paul Lawrence 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: Eijkman and the Transformation of Beri-Beri into a Vitamin Deficiency Disease / Harmke Kamminga
  • Gout and Quakery; Or, Banks and Mountebanks / Roy Porter
  • Notes on Contributors / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter
  • Mikuláš Teich: Bibliography / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

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