The American Development of Biology

Jane Maienschein author Ronald Rainger author Jane Maienschein editor Ronald Rainger editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Published:1st Jun '91

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The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.

Intelligently organized and presented... the essays bespeak the expansion in recent years of the study of the history of biology... beyond the pure history of ideas to include social, economic, and institutional context and its shaping influence on scientific research programs.  -- Daniel J. Kevles * Science *
Fills in gap and sets the record straight concerning the diversity, the complexity, and the general richness of biological theory and practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *
History of science at its modern best.  -- W. J. Bynum * Nature *

ISBN: 9780813517025

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm

Weight: 596g

312 pages