Handbook of the Historiography of Biology
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-90118-3 (ISBN)
This handbook offers original, critical perspectives on different approaches to the history of biology. This collection is intended to start a new conversation among historians of biology regarding their work, its history, and its future. Historical scholarship does not take place in isolation: As historians create their narratives describing the past, they are in dialogue not only with their sources but with other historians and other narratives. One important task for the historian is to place her narrative in a historiographic lineage. Each author in this collection offers their particular perspective on the historiography of a range of topics from Model Organisms to Eugenics, Molecular Biology to Biotechnology, Women, Race, Scientific Biography, Genetics, Darwin and more. Rather than comprehensive literature reviews, the essays critically reflect upon important historiographic trends, offering pointed appraisals of the field by leading scholars. Other authors willsurely have different perspectives, and this is the beauty and challenge of history-making. The Handbook of the Historiography of Biology presents an opportunity to engage with each other about how the history of biology has been and will be written.
Michael R. Dietrich, Professor of Biological Sciences, studied Philosophy and Biology at Virginia Tech before earning a doctorate in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Before coming to Dartmouth in 1998, he was an Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. As a historian and philosopher of biology, his primary interests are in the nature of scientific controversy. In numerous scholarly articles and chapters, he has explored controversies in evolutionary genetics and molecular evolution, as well as controversial figures, such as the émigré geneticist Richard Goldschmidt. He is currently engaged with a large-scale project to document the diversity and distribution of developmental biology research on a global scale in the post-war period. He has edited three books; Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology with Oren Harman (2007), The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences with Nancy Anderson (2012), and Biology Outside the Box: Boundary Crossers and Innovation in the Life Sciences with Oren Harman (2013). He is currently writing a book on genetic drift with Roberta Millstein and Robert Skipper entitled Survival of the Luckiest: Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Random Drift in Evolutionary Biology, as well as a biography of Richard Goldschmidt. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the History of Biology, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Introduction: Historiography and the History of Biology - Michael R. Dietrich and Mark Borrello.- Chapter 1. Charles Darwin and the Darwinian Tradition; Janet Browne.- Chapter 2. Modern Evolutionary Biology; Mark Borrello.- Chapter 3. Ecology and Environmental History; Gena Rumore.- Chapter 4. History of Natural History; Bruno Strasser.- Chapter 5. Gregor Mendel and 19th century Heredity; Staffan Mueller-Wille.- Chapter 6. Eugenics; Paul Weindling.- Chapter 7. Modern Genetics and Genomics; Michel R. Dietrich.- Chapter 8. Molecular Biology; Michel Morange.- Chapter 9. Biomedicine; Nick Rasmssen.-Chapter 10. Developmental Biology; Jane Maeinschein.- Chapter 11. Organisms and Traditions of Research; Rachel Ankeny and Sabine Leonelli.- Chapter 12. Biotechnology; Nathan Crowe.- Chapter 13. Biological Practice and Experimentation; Hannah Landecker.- Chapter 14. Biography; Oren Harman.- Chapter 15. Women in Biology; Marsha Richmond.- Chapter 16. Race in Biology; Tracy Teslow.- Chapter 17. Local, Global, and Transnational Perspectives on Biology; Ana Barahona.
"How did we ever manage without this superb volume? ... For graduate students working in or around the history of biology, this is a must-have volume. But it will benefit anyone, from advanced undergraduates on up, who wants to get knowledgeable and serious about the topics covered. Even readers who reckon they know their way around a historiography will come away instructed and inspired by seeing it ... . upon reaching the end, one wishes it were longer." (Gregory Radick, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 97 (2), June, 2022)
“How did we ever manage without this superb volume? … For graduate students working in or around the history of biology, this is a must-have volume. But it will benefit anyone, from advanced undergraduates on up, who wants to get knowledgeable and serious about the topics covered. Even readers who reckon they know their way around a historiography will come away instructed and inspired by seeing it … . upon reaching the end, one wishes it were longer.” (Gregory Radick, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 97 (2), June, 2022)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Historiographies of Science |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 538 p. 5 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1141 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Schlagworte | Charles Darwin and the Darwinian Tradition • Ecology and Environmental History • Gregor Mendel and 19th century Heredity • historiography of science • History of Biology • history of biomedicine • history of biotechnology • History of developmental biology • History of Eugenics • history of evolutionary biology • history of genetics • History of Molecular Biology • History of Natural History • Modern Evolutionary Biology • Modern Genetics and Genomics • Organisms and Traditions of Research • race and biology • women and biology |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-90118-4 / 3319901184 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-90118-3 / 9783319901183 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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