Book ID: CBB000036513

Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology (1987)

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Pauly, Philip J. (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 1987
Physical Details: 252 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Olby, R. (1990) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (pp. 152-56). unapi

Review Benson, K.R. (1990) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 600-1). unapi

Review Cowan, R.S. (1990) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". American Historical Review (pp. 1154-55). unapi

Review Cravens, H. (1989) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 183-86). unapi

Review Maienschein, J. (1988) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 521-22). unapi

Review Hagen, J.B. (1988) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 240-41). unapi

Review Lewontin, R.C. (1989) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". New York Review of Books (pp. 18-22). unapi

Review Olby, R. (1988) Review of "Controlling life: Jacques Loeb and the engineering ideal in biology". Nature (pp. 756-57). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fangerau, Heiner
Tilman, Rick
Rasmussen, Charles T.
Pauly, Philip J.
Müller, Irmgard
Trevor W. Hambley
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social Studies of Science
Public Understanding of Science
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of the History of Dentistry
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
VWB
Johns Hopkins University
Elsevier
Akademie-Verlag
Harvard University
American Philosophical Society
Concepts
Biology
International cooperation
Human physiology
Research
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
World War I
People
Loeb, Jacques
Freeman, Hans Charles
Mitchell, David Farrar
Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
Watson, John Broadus
Spemann, Hans
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
Naples (Italy)
Italy
Australia
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Biologie, Berlin
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
University of Sydney
Rockefeller Foundation
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli
California Institute of Technology
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