Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb & the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb & the Engineering Ideal in Biology

by Philip J. Pauly
ISBN-10:
0195042441
ISBN-13:
9780195042443
Pub. Date:
04/16/1987
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195042441
ISBN-13:
9780195042443
Pub. Date:
04/16/1987
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb & the Engineering Ideal in Biology

Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb & the Engineering Ideal in Biology

by Philip J. Pauly

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Overview

The biologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This biography traces his career and convincingly argues that Loeb's desire to control organisms, manifested in studies of both reproduction and animal behavior, contributed to a new self-image for biologists. The author places Loeb's experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts, tracing his influence on the development of behaviorism, genetics, and reproductive biology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195042443
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 04/16/1987
Series: Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.31(w) x 9.56(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Philip J. Pauly is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

1. The Shaping of a Biologist
2. The Engineering Standpoint
3. New American Environments
4. Evolution and Experimentation
5. The Invention of Artificial Parthenogenesis
6. Investigating Animal Behavior
7. The Problems of a Mechanistic Conception of Life
8. The Loebian Influence in American Biology
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