“What is Dead May Not Die”: Locating Marginalized Concepts Among Ordinary Biologists (2022)
Peterson, Erik L. (Author)
Hall, Crystal (Author)
Journal of the History of Biology
Volume: 55
Issue: 2
Pages: 219-251
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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