Life Science in the Twentieth Century (History of Science (Frankln Watts))

Science & Math

Allen, Garland E.

Biological Sciences

John Wiley&Sons

xxv 257p a little aged paperback, wear to cover, some yellowing, useful clean copy

Life Science in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

softcover edition previous owners name on title page minor shelf wear only

Technology

Cambridge University Press

xxiii 257p black paperback, very minor wear to cover, well preserved copy

History & Philosophy

A set comprising five volumes detailing the histories of the established departments of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, the Geophysical Laboratory, the Department of Plant Biology and the Department of Embryology. A century of experiment, discovery and evolution is revealed.

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Hardback Set

History

Sandage, Allan

Brown, Louis

Maienschein, Jane

Craig, Patricia

Yoder, Hatten S.

Glitz, Marie

Americas

Morgan, Thomas Hunt, -- 1866-1945. Geneticists, United States, Biography.

Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science

Mathematics

Princeton University Press

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 5 Volume Paperback Set

Earth Sciences

This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the role of science as a social as well as intellectual process, one that is always embedded in its time and place in history. In dealing with the issue of science as a process, the book introduces students to the elements of inductive and deductive logic, hypothesis formulation and testing, the design of experiments and the interpretation of data. An appendix presents the basics of statistical analysis for students with no background in statistical reasoning and manipulation. Reasoning processes are always illustrated with specific examples from both the past (eighteenth and nineteenth century) as well as the present. In dealing with science and social issues, this book introduces students to historical, sociological and philosophical issues such as Thomas Kuhn’s concept of paradigms and paradigm shifts, the social-constructions view of the history of science, as well as political and ethical issues such human experimentation, the eugenics movement and compulsory sterilization, and religious arguments against stem cell research and the teaching of evolution in schools.
In addition to specific examples illustrating one point or another about the process of biology or social-political context, a number of in-depth case studies are used to show how scientific investigations are originated, designed, carried out in particular social/cultural contexts. Among those included are: Migration of monarch butterflies, John Snow’s investigations on the cause of cholera, Louis Pasteur’s controversy over spontaneous generation, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, and the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education (Springer Texts in Education)

Politics & Social Sciences

Baker, Jeffrey J.W.

Philosophy

Springer

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