Book ID: CBB879335435

Goldfish (2019)

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Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor (Author)


Reaktion Books


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 208
Language: English

Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artifact. A creature of supposedly little memory and a short lifespan, it has held universal appeal as a reservoir for human ideas and ideals. In ancient China, goldfish were saved from predators in acts of religious reverence and selectively bred for their glittering grace. In the East, they became the subject of exquisite art, regarded as living flowers that moved, while in the West, they became ubiquitous residents of the Victorian parlor. Cheap and eminently available, today they are bred by the millions for the growing domestic pet market, while also proving to be important to laboratory studies of perception, vision, and intelligence. In this illuminating homage to the goldfish, Anna Marie Roos blends art and science to trace the surprising and intriguing history of this much-loved animal, challenging our cultural preconceptions of a creature often thought to be common and disposable.

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Review Lijing Jiang (2021) Review of "Goldfish". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 171-173). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Leonelli, Sabina
Ankeny, Rachel A.
Schlünder, Martina
Reiß, Christian
Ramsden, Edmund
Kirk, Robert
Concepts
Experimental organisms
Animal experimentation
Animals
Biology
Standards and standardization
Models and modeling in science
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
United States
Washington (state, U.S.)
Germany
India
Institutions
Königlich Preußischen Institut für experimentelle Therapie
Georg Speyer-Haus
International Committee on Laboratory Animals
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
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