Söderqvist, Thomas (Editor)
Ashgate
Physical Details: xiv + 270 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description Contents: Thomas Söderqvist, “Introduction: A New Look at the Genre of Scientific Biography”; Liba Taub, “Presenting a `Life' as a Guide to Living: Ancient Accounts of the Life of Pythagoras”; Stephen Gaukroger, “Biography as a Route to Understanding Early Modern Natural Philosophy”; Norman Lockyer, “Neither Genius nor Context Incarnate”; David Aubin and Charlotte Bigg, “Jules Janssen and the Astrophysical Self”; Patricia Fara, “Framing the Evidence: Scientific Biography and Portraiture”; Thomas L. Hankins, “Biography and the Reward System in Science”; Christopher A. J. Chilvers, “The Tragedy of Comrade Hessen: Biography as Historical Discourse”; Helge Kragh, “Received Wisdom in Biography: Tycho Biographies from Gassendi to Christianson”; Signe Lindskov Hansen, “The Programmatic Function of Biography: Readings of 19- and 20th-Century Biographies of Niels Stensen (Steno)”; Rebekah Higgitt, “Discriminating Days? Partiality and Impartiality in 19th-Century Biographies of Newton”; Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, “Biographies as Mediators between Memory and History in Science”; Jacalyn Duffin, “`La mauvaise herbe': Unwanted Biographies Both Great and Small”; Rena Selya, “Primary Suspects: Reflections on Autobiography and Life Stories in the History of Molecular Biology”; Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, “Pas de deux: The Biographer and the Living Biographical Subject”; Beth Linker, “Resuscitating the `Great Doctor': The Career of Biography in Medical History”; and Thomas Söderqvist, “`No Genre of History Fell under More Odium than That of Biography': The Delicate Relations between Scientific Biography and Historiography of Science.”
Review Schummer, Joachim (2008) Review of "The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (p. 293).
Review Henry, John (2008) Review of "The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 387).
Review Reinarz, Jonathan (2009) Review of "The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography". Social History of Medicine (p. 201).
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