| The American Development of Biology Contributor(s): Maienschein, Jane (Editor), Rainger, Ronald (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813517028 ISBN-13: 9780813517025 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1991 Annotation: Selected as one of the Best "Sci-Tech" Books of 1988 by Library Journal. "Intelligently organized and presented . . . the essays bespeak the expansion in recent years of the study of the history of biology . . . beyond the pure history of ideas to include social, economic, and institutional context and its shaping influence on scientific research programs." --Daniel J. Kevles, Science "Fills in the gap and sets the record straight concerning the diversity, the complexity, and the general richness of biological theory and practice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth cneturies." --Bulletin of the History of Medicine "History of science at its modern best." --W. J. Bynum, Nature |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biology - Science | History |
| Dewey: 574.097 |
| LCCN: 91011533 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.01" W x 8.99" (1.36 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States. |