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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858
Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858
Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.
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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

by James Elwick
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

by James Elwick

Overview

Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822966340
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century Series , #87
Edition description: 1
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: (w) x (h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

James Elwick is associate professor of science and technology studies at York University. He is the author of Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858, and currently works on how standardized achievement tests actually became standardized.
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