Book ID: CBB000950264

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (2008)

unapi

Harman, Oren (Editor)
Dietrich, Michael R. (Editor)


Yale University Press
Publication date: 2008
Language: English


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: viii + 400 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Kingsland, Sharon (2009) Review of "Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 634). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Allen, Garland E. (2008) Rebel with Two Causes: Hans Driesch. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 37). unapi

Chapter Ruse, Michael (2008) Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of Humankind. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 20). unapi

Chapter Falk, Raphael (2008) Wilhelm Johannsen: A Rebel or a Diehard?. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 65). unapi

Chapter Tobias, Phillip V. (2008) Raymond Arthur Dart: The Man Who Unwillingly Ushered in a Revolution in the Evolution of Humankind. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 84). unapi

Chapter Harman, Oren (2008) In Weismann's Footsteps: The Cyto-Rebellion of C. D. Darlington. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 103). unapi

Chapter Dietrich, Michael R. (2008) Striking the Hornet's Nest: Richard Goldschmidt's Rejection of the Particulate Gene. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 119). unapi

Chapter Comfort, Nathaniel (2008) Rebellion and Iconoclasm in the Life and Science of Barbara McClintock. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 137). unapi

Chapter Deichmann, Ute (2008) Challenging the Protein Dogma of the Gene: Oswald T. Avery, a Revolutionary Conservative. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 154). unapi

Chapter Horder, Tim (2008) Roger Sperry and Integrative Action in the Nervous System. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 174). unapi

Chapter Harman, Oren; Dietrich, Michael R. (2008) Introduction: On Rebels, Icons, and the Value of Dissent. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Hull, David L. (2008) Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 194). unapi

Chapter Borrello, Mark (2008) Dogma, Heresy, and Conversion: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards's Crusade and the Levels-of-Selection Debate. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 213). unapi

Chapter Prebble, John; Weber, Bruce (2008) Peter Mitchell: Changing the Face of Bioenergetics. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 231). unapi

Chapter Kevles, Daniel J. (2008) Howard Temin: Rebel of Evidence and Reason. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 248). unapi

Chapter Crow, James F. (2008) Motoo Kimura and the Rise of Neutralism. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 265). unapi

Chapter Segerstrale, Ullica (2008) Against the Grain: The Science and Life of William D. Hamilton. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 282). unapi

Chapter Sapp, Jan (2008) The Iconoclastic Research Program of Carl Woese. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 302). unapi

Chapter Sepkoski, David (2008) Stephen Jay Gould, Darwinian Iconoclast?. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 321). unapi

Chapter Despret, Vinciane (2008) Culture and Gender Do Not Dissolve into How Scientists “Read Nature”: Thelma Rowell's Heterodoxy. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 338). unapi

Chapter Dritschilo, William (2008) Bringing Statistical Methods to Community and Evolutionary Ecology: Daniel S. Simberloff. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 356). unapi

Chapter Lewontin, Richard C. (2008) Epilogue: Legitimation Is the Name of the Game. In: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (p. 372). unapi

Citation URI
stagingisis.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB000950264

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Similar Citations

Book Hoppe, Brigitte; (2006)
Controversies and Disputes in the Life Sciences in the 19th and 20th Centuries unapi

Thesis Barwich, Ann-Sophie; (cited 2013)
Making Sense of Smell: Classifications and Model Thinking in Olfaction Theory unapi

Article Eduard I. Kolchinsky; (2017)
Nikolaĭ I. Vavilov in the Realm of Historical and Scientific Discussions unapi

Book Esha Shah; (2018)
Who Is the Scientist-Subject?: Affective History of the Gene unapi

Article Reinhard Werner; (2024)
Bohr versus Einstein unapi

Article Hiroshi 浩 Ichikawa 市川; (2012)
Soviet Physicists during the War: Jealousy, Discord and the Ideological Dispute unapi

Article Edward Dutton; Guy Madison; Dimitri van der Linden; (2021)
Genius and premature birth: little evidence that claims about historically eminent scientists are accurate unapi

Article Gregoire Molinatti; Lionel Simonneau; (April 2015)
A Socioenvironmental Shale Gas Controversy: Scientists’ Public Communications, Social Responsibility and Collective Versus Individual Positions unapi

Book Bastian, Henry Charlton; Strick, James; (2001)
Evolution and the Spontaneous Generation Debate. Vol 1-6 unapi

Book Swisher, Carl Celso, III; Curtis, Garniss H.; Lewin, Roger; (2001)
Java Man: How Two geologists changed our understanding of human evolution unapi

Book Strick, James E.; (2015)
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist unapi

Article Jole Shackelford; (2020)
Chemical Paradigm vs. Biological Paradigm in the Biological Clock Controversy unapi

Article David Ceccarelli; (2021)
“The bad habit of wandering”: Morgan, Osborn and the issue of evolutionary causality in genetics and paleontology unapi

Book Michael Marshall; (2020)
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth unapi

Article Mallet, James; (2010)
Why Was Darwin's View of Species Rejected by Twentieth Century Biologists? unapi

Article Meer, Jitse M. van der; (2000)
The Engagement of Religion and Biology: A Case Study in the Mediating Role of Metaphor in the Sociobiology of Lumsden and Wilson unapi

Article Kraft, Alison; (2011)
Converging Histories, Reconsidered Potentialities: The Stem Cell and Cancer unapi

Article Krasnodębski, Marcin; (2014)
Constructing Creationists: French and British Narratives and Policies in the Wake of the Resurgence of Anti-Evolution Movements unapi

Article Diéguez, Antonio; (2013)
When do Models Provide Genuine Understanding, and Why Does It Matter? unapi

Book Evans, John H.; (2001)
Playing God? Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate, 1959-1995 unapi

Authors & Contributors
Strick, James E.
Bastian, Henry Charlton
Curtis, Garniss H.
Diéguez, Antonio
Evans, John H.
Hoppe, Brigitte
Journals
Biology and Philosophy
Almagest
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
BioSocieties
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
E. Rauner Verlag
Harvard University Press
Thoemmes
University of Exeter
University Press
Concepts
Controversies and disputes
Biology
Genetics
Scientists
Evolution
Biogenesis; origin of life; spontaneous generation
People
Bastian, Henry Charlton
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Darwin, Charles Robert
Einstein, Albert
Freud, Sigmund
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
France
United States
Soviet Union
Europe
Germany
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment