Article ID: CBB576856882

“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists (2022)

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Historians and biologists identify the debate between mechanists and vitalists over the nature of life itself with the arguments of Driesch, Loeb, and other prominent voices. But what if the conversation was broader and the consequences deeper for the field? Following the suspicions of Joseph Needham in the 1930s and Francis Crick in the 1960s, we deployed tools of the digital humanities to an old problem in the history of biology. We analyzed over 31,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers and learned that bioexceptionalism participated in a robust discursive landscape throughout subfields of the life sciences, occupied even by otherwise unknown biologists.

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Article Jan Baedke; Christina Brandt (2022) Between the Wars, Facing a Scientific Crisis: The Theoretical and Methodological Bottleneck of Interwar Biology. Journal of the History of Biology (pp. 209-217). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wolfe, Charles T.
Beekman, Wim
Jochemsen, Henk
Morrone, Juan J.
Sheredos, Benjamin
Gambarotto, Andrea
Concepts
Vitalism
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Controversies and disputes
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Ancient
21st century
Places
Netherlands
Germany
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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