Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940
Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940

Author: Gerald L. Geisson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-27

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1461475287

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A study of physiology in America, this places the development of American physiology in the cultural context of the period. Divided into three parts, the book covers social and institutional history; physiology in relation to other fields; and instruments, materials and techniques.

Science as a Way of Knowing
Science as a Way of Knowing

Author: John Alexander Moore

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780674794825

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This book makes Moore's wisdom available to students in a lively, richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing rhetoric strategies including case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative, it provides both a cultural history of biology and an introduction to the procedures and values of science.