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Science and Its Conceptual Foundations Ser.: Styles of Scientific Thought : The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933 by Jonathan Harwood (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226318826
ISBN-139780226318820
eBay Product ID (ePID)80176
Product Key Features
Number of Pages444 Pages
Publication NameStyles of Scientific Thought : the German Genetics Community, 1900-1933
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLife Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Research
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaRéférence, Science
AuthorJonathan Harwood
SeriesScience and Its Conceptual Foundations Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight23.1 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN92-015321
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal575.10943
Table Of ContentChapter 1: Getting Started: the Argument, Method, and Context 1.1 An Overview of the Argument 1.2 Styles of Thought 1.3 The Revolution in Morphology 1.4 The Response to Specialization 1.5 The Early Days of Mendelism in Germany Part 1: The Peculiarities of German Genetics Chapter 2: The Genetics of Development 2.1 Developmental Genetics in Germany during the 1920s 2.2 Cytoplasmic Inheritance 2.3 In Search of Simplicity: George Beadle's Approach to Physiological Genetics 2.4 Conclusion Chapter 3: Genetics and the Evolutionary Process 3.1 The Debate over Natural Selection in Interwar Germany 3.2 The Implications of Cytoplasmic Inheritance for Evolutionary Theory 3.3 The Controversy over Dauermodifications 3.4 The Relation between the Plasmon and Dauermodifications 3.5 Conclusion Chapter 4: Demarcating the Discipline: Germany versus the United States 4.1 Patterns of Growth in Higher Education and Research 4.2 The Effect of University Structure upon Specialization 4.3 Conclusion Chapter 5: Shifting Focus Part 2: Styles of Thought within the German Genetics Community Chapter 6: Mapping the German Genetics Community 6.1 Research Programs 6.2 Forms of Organization 6.3 Patterns of Funding 6.4 Institutional Developments after 1933 6.5 Conclusion Chapter 7: Imputing Styles of Thought 7.1 Portraits in Contrast: Alfred Kuhn and Erwin Baur 7.2 Imputing Styles of Thought 7.3 Differences of Political Outlook 7.4 Conclusion Chapter 8: Mandarins Confront Modernization 8.1 Bildung as Ideology 8.2 Modernization Diversifies the Professoriate 8.3 The Politics of the Professoriate 8.4 Integrating Institutional and Societal Explanations 8.5 Conclusion Chapter 9: The Politics of Nuclear-Cytoplasmic Relations 9.1 Critics of the Plasmon Theory 9.2 Revisionist Conceptions of the Plasmon 9.3 Models of Cellular Order 9.4 The Cell as Political Microcosm 9.5 Conclusion, Conclusion
SynopsisIn this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, assumptions, research traditions, and funding patterns. The first book-length treatment of genetics in Germany, Styles of Scientific Thought demonstrates the influence of culture on science by comparing the American with the German scientific traditions. Harwood examines the structure of academic and research institutions, the educational backgrounds of geneticists, and cultural traditions, among many factors, to explain why the American approach was much more narrowly focussed than the German. This tremendously rich book fills a gap between histories of the physical sciences in the Weimar Republic and other works on the humanities and the arts during the intellectually innovative 1920s, and it will interest European historians, as well as sociologists and philosophers of science.
LC Classification NumberQH428.2.G3H37 1993
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