Book ID: CBB001020054

Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (2010)

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Alexander, Denis R. (Editor)
Numbers, Ronald L. (Editor)


University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2010
Language: English


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 453 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Packham, David E. (2012) Review of "Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 171). unapi

Review Allen, Garland E. (2011) Review of "Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 336). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Sivasundaram, Sujit (2010) Race, Empire, and Biology before Darwinism. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 114). unapi

Chapter Roe, Shirley A. (2010) Biology, Atheism, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 36). unapi

Chapter Topham, Jonathan R. (2010) Biology in the Service of Natural Theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 88). unapi

Chapter Weindling, Paul (2010) Genetics, Eugenics, and the Holocaust. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 192). unapi

Chapter Krementsov, Nikolai (2010) Darwinism, Marxism, and Genetics in the Soviet Union. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 215). unapi

Chapter Milam, Erika Lorraine (2010) Beauty and the Beast? Conceptualizing Sex in Evolutionary Narratives. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 276). unapi

Chapter McGrath, Alister E. (2010) The Ideological Uses of Evolutionary Biology in Recent Atheist Apologetics. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 329). unapi

Chapter Rupke, Nicolaas (2010) Darwin's Choice. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 139). unapi

Chapter Harrison, Peter (2010) The Cultural Authority of Natural History in Early Modern Europe. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 11). unapi

Chapter Reill, Peter Hanns (2010) Eighteenth-Century Uses of Vitalism in Constructing the Human Sciences. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 61). unapi

Chapter Larson, Edward J. (2010) Biology and the Emergence of the Anglo-American Eugenics Movement. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Ruse, Michael (2010) Evolution and the Idea of Social Progress. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 247). unapi

Chapter Numbers, Ronald L. (2010) Creationism, Intelligent Design, and Modern Biology. In: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (p. 302). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Numbers, Ronald L.
Beck, Naomi
Born, Riyan van den
Consoli, Luca
Engels, Eve-Marie
Godart, Gerard Rainier Clinton
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Public Understanding of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History of Biology
New Books Network Podcast
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Greenwood Press
M. Suhrkamp
Nivola Libros y Ediciones
Odile Jacob
Concepts
Evolution
Science and religion
Darwinism
Creationism
Science and race
Biology
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Haeckel, Ernst
Kingsley, Charles
Lincoln, Abraham
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Ireland
Australia
Canada
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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