Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life: How the experimental method shaped life sciences

This book tells the story of how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespread and accessible, philosophers now focus on problems of ethics particularly with respect to the reproductive functions that contemporary biology is able to manipulate and modify.

Looking at the stunning progress made by scientific thought over the last five centuries we might ask ourselves wha...