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Ivan Pavlov : exploring the animal machine / Daniel Todes.

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)

Ebook Central Academic Complete Available online

Ebook Central Academic Complete
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Todes, Daniel Philip, author.
Series:
Oxford portraits in science.
Oxford portraits in science
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 1849-1936.
Physiologists.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (111 p. ) ill. ;
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
A biography of the Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1904 for research on the digestive system and is perhaps best known for his research on dogs.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Seminarian Chooses Science
Sidebar: Russian Names and the Pavlov Family
Sidebar: Sechenov, Reflexes, and Free Will
Chapter 2: Struggling Scientist in St. Petersburg
Chapter 3: Pavlov's Physiology Factory
Sidebar: The Pavlov Isolated Stomach
Sidebar: Why a Factory? Metaphors in Scientific Thinking
Chapter 4: Towers of Silence
Chapter 5: After the Revolution
Chapter 6: "The Prince of World Physiology"
Chronology
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
R
S
T
U
V
W.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (107-108) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-028300-9
1-280-56409-1
9786610564095
0-19-802648-X
1-4237-7414-0
OCLC:
1027145225

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