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Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Pauly, Philip J.

Hardcover

Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology

Biographies GeneralSports GeneralBiology

ISBN10: 0195042441
ISBN13: 9780195042443
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 16 1987
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography traces his career and convincingly argues that Loeb's desire to control organisms, manifested in studies of both reproduction and animal behavior, contributed to a new self-image for biologists. The author places Loeb's experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts, tracing his influence on the development of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology.

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