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Dreamers, visionaries, and revolutionaries in the life sciences / edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Biography.
- Science.
- Biologists--Biography.
- Biologists.
- Scientists--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Biology--Biography.
- Biology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries' in the Life Sciences explores biologists who had grand ideas that went beyond the 'run of the mill' science of their peers. Each of the eighteen figures featured in the book espoused science that was visionary, often threatening and destabilizing, sometimes fantastical or even quixotic.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Perchance to Dream— Fostering Novelty in the Life Sciences
- 1 Jean- Baptiste Lamarck: Biological Visionary
- 2 Ernst Haeckel: A Dream Transformed
- 3 Peter Kropotkin: Anarchist, Revolutionary, Dreamer
- 4 Mary Lasker: Citizen Lobbyist for Medical Research
- 5 Jonas Salk: American Hero, Scientific Outcast
- 6 The Origins of “Dynamic Reciprocity”: Mina Bissell’s Expansive Picture of Cancer Causation
- 7 W. Ford Doolittle: Evolutionary Provocations and a Pluralistic Vision
- 8 Collecting Dreams in the Molecular Sciences: Margaret Dayhoff and The Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure
- 9 Neanderthals in Space: George Church’s Modest Steps toward Possible Futures
- 10 From New Alchemy to Living Machines: John Todd’s Dreams of Ecological Engineering
- 11 Stephen Hubbell and the Paramount Power of Randomness
- 12 Rachel Carson: Prophet for the Environment
- 13 Jane Goodall: She Dreamed of Tarzan
- 14 Francis Crick and the Problem of Consciousness
- 15 David Sloan Wilson: Visionary, Idealist, Ideologue
- 16 D’Arcy Thompson: Archetypical Visionary
- 17 James Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis: “A New Look at Life on Earth” . . . for the Life and the Earth Sciences
- 18 Big Dreams for Small Creatures: Ilana and Eugene Rosenberg’s Path to the Hologenome Theory
- Epilogue: The Scientist Dreamer
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780226570075
- 022657007X
- OCLC:
- 1198929952
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