From physico-theology to bio-technology, essays in the social and cultural history of bioschiences, a festschrift for Mikulas Teich / Edited by Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, editor.

Bayertz, Kurt, editor.

Series:

Clio Medica ; 48.

Clio Medica ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life sciences--Social aspects--History.

Life sciences.

Science--Social aspects--History.

Science.

Biotechnology--Social aspects--History.

Biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Atlanta, Georgia : Rodopi, [1998]

Summary:

For the last half century, Mikuláš Teich has made many eminent contributions to the histories of science, technology, medicine and society. His essentially Marxist historiographical stance has resisted the notion that science is an autonomous entity, and has instead stressed the interplay of the economic, the social and the scientific forces in history. At the same time, particularly in studies of biochemistry, he has emphasized the significance of the role of science and technology in modern economic change. In a career divided between Czechoslovakia and the UK, he has always been highly internationalist in his historical outlooks, combining what is valuable in Contentinal and British methods. This volume is to honour him on his eightieth birthday. Examining European developments since the sixteenth century, the essays, many by old friends and colleagues, cluster around themes close to his own personal scholarship and related to volumes which he has edited. The book is divided into sections on Questions of History; Scientific Lives; Disciplines; Natural History, and Science and Disease.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Mikuláš Teich: A Biographical Sketch / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter

Business History: Cinderella, Prince Charming or Ugly Sister? / Terry Gourvish

Darwin’s Revolution / Robert N. Proctor

The different faces of science: is genetics a social construct? / Benno Müller-Hill

Bare Heads against Red Hats: a Portrait of Paracelsus / Charles Webster

Science – Education and Culture. Ideas and Concepts of German Nineteenth Century Scientists / Dietrich von Engelhardt

Thomas George Hodgkins (1803–92) and the future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) / William H. Brock

Biology as Technology / Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers

From the “Originary Phenomenon” to the “System of Pelagic Fishery”: Johannes Muller (1801–1858) and the Relation Between Physiology and Philosophy / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

A Male Mind in a Female Body: Sexology, Homosexuality and the Woman Question in Germany, 1869–1914 / Katharina Rowold

The Naturalist Tradition: A Natural History / Paul Lawrence Farber

Medicine, the Body, and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica / Julie Peakman

Biology of Liberation: Some Historical Aspects of “Proletarian Race Hygienics” / Reinhard Mocek

Credit and Resistance: Eijkman and the Transformation of Beri-Beri into a Vitamin Deficiency Disease / Harmke Kamminga

Gout and Quakery; Or, Banks and Mountebanks / Roy Porter

Notes on Contributors / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter

Mikuláš Teich: Bibliography / Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-41857-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004418578 DOI