History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Eric Davidson, his philosophy, and the history of science2017/10/16English
The network remains2017/10/16English
Luis A. Campos, Radium and the secret of life2018/05/14English
Denis Goulet and Robert Gagnon, Histoire de la médecine au Québec. 1800–2000. de l’art de soigner à la science de guérir2016/06/17English
A tale of two biographies: the myth and truth of Barbara McClintock2016/11/10English
Stage-hands, make-up artists, and other backstage characters in the drama of science2016/11/10English
Technology in scientific practice: how H. J. Muller used the fruit fly to investigate the X-ray machine2023/06/01English
Forgetting how we ate: personalised nutrition and the strategic uses of history2024/03/01English
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness2024/04/02English
“Naked life”: the vital meaning of nutrition in Claude Bernard’s physiology2024/04/08English
Refusing epigenetics: indigeneity and the colonial politics of trauma2023/12/18English
A fetus in the world: Physiology, epidemiology, and the making of fetal origins of adult disease2023/12/01English
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 20192023/11/22English
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system2023/10/25English
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture2024/03/01English
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree2024/03/26English
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century2023/03/01English
Epistemological discipline in animal behavior studies: Konrad Lorenz and Daniel Lehrman on intuition and empathy2023/02/28English
Reappraising Claude Bernard’s legacy: an introduction2024/01/25English
From the harmony to the tension: Helmuth Plessner and Kurt Goldstein’s readings of Jakob von Uexküll2024/01/25English
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 20182023/06/29English
Sorting sex, controlling sex: Masui Kiyoshi’s chicken research and experimental system, 1915–19502023/06/01English
The machine-organism relation revisited2023/07/13English
Cropping synonymy: varietal standardization in the United States, 1900–19702023/07/12English
Hodgkin’s and Huxley’s own assessments of their “quantitative description” of nerve membrane current2023/06/16English
Georg Striedter, Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 20222023/06/29English
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20202023/06/28English
Human genetics in post-WWII Italy: blood, genes and platforms2023/01/05English
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care2023/01/17English
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena2024/02/19English