Strick, James E. (Author)
What are cells? How are they related to each other and to the organism as a whole? These questions have exercised biology since Schleiden and Schwann (1838–1839) first proposed cells as the key units of structure and function of all living things. But how do we try to understand them? Through new technologies like the achromatic microscope and the electron microscope. But just as importantly, through the metaphors our culture has made available to biologists in different periods and places. These two new volumes provide interesting history and philosophy of the development of cell biology. Reynolds surveys the field's changing conceptual structure by examining the varied panoply of changing metaphors used to conceptualize and explain cells – from cells as empty boxes, as building blocks, to individual organisms, to chemical factories, and through many succeeding metaphors up to one with great currency today: cells as social creatures in communication with others in their community. There is some of this approach in the Visions edited collection as well. But this collection also includes rich material on the technologies used to visualize cells and their dialectical relationship with the epistemology of the emerging distinct discipline of cell biology. This volume centres on, but is not limited to, ‘reflections inspired by [E.V.] Cowdry's [1924 volume] General Cytology’; it benefits from a conference on the Cowdry volume as well as a 2011 Marine Biological Lab/Arizona State University workshop on the history of cell biology.
...MoreBook Karl S. Matlin; Jane Maienschein; Manfred D. Laubichler (2018) Visions of Cell Biology: Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology".
Book Reynolds, Andrew S. (2018) The Third Lens: Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology.
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Reynolds, Andrew;
(2007)
The Cell's Journey: From Metaphorical to Literal Factory
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Bechtel, William;
(2010)
The Cell: Locus or Object of Inquiry?
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Chapter
Aldo Fasolo;
Davide Lovisolo;
(2015)
"The Cell in Development and Inheritance", centoventi anni dopo. E.B. Wilson, la teoria cellulare e il tassello mancante: la membrana plasmatica
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Article
Reynolds, Andrew;
(2008)
Ernst Haeckel and the Theory of the Cell State: Remarks on the History of a Bio-Political Metaphor
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Book
Normandin, Sebastien;
Wolfe, Charles T.;
(2013)
Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800--2010
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Review
Susan Double;
(2015)
Review of "Return of the Phasmid: Australia's Rarest Insect Fights Back from the Brink of Extinction"
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Review
Angeline Brasier;
(2015)
Review of "First Fleet Surgeon: The Voyage of Arthur Bowes Smyth"
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Review
Jodi Frawley;
(2015)
Review of "Daniel McAlpine and The Bitter Pit"
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Review
Denise Donlon;
(2015)
Review of "Ned Kelly: Under the Microscope"
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Review
James Drown;
(2015)
Review of "Nature's Line: George Goyder, Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary"
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Review
Margaret Sankey;
(2015)
Review of "Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath"
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Review
Ben Maddison;
(2015)
Review of "Shackleton's Heroes: The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive"
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Review
Andrew Turner;
(2015)
Review of "Australia's War Against Rabbits: The Story of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease"
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Review
Rebecca Anderson;
(2015)
Review of "Out of the Past: Views of Adelaide Botanic Garden, a Series of Edwardian Era Postcards"
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Review
Neeraja Sankaran;
(2015)
Review of "Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity"
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Article
Andrew Smith;
Mary Beilby;
(2015)
Norman Alan Walker 1929–2013
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Review
Rebecca Anderson;
(2015)
Review of "Flooded Forest and Desert Creek: Ecology and History of the River Red Gum"
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Review
Samantha Killmore;
(2015)
Review of "Transforming Biology: A History of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Melbourne"
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Review
Bernard O’Neil;
(2015)
Review of "Somersaults in the Sand: Adventures in the Geological Mapping of Australia"
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Article
O'Malley, Maureen A.;
Müller-Wille, Staffan;
(2010)
The Cell as Nexus: Connections between the History, Philosophy and Science of Cell Biology
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