Author: John Hunter
Author: John HunterPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology and geology
Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology v. 1
Author: John HunterEssays in the History of the Physiological Sciences
Author: Claude DebruPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051836462
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The history of the physiological sciences remains a field of investigation open to scholars of different origins and specialties. Recently, historians of science and medicine have paid attention to contemporary disciplines like genetics and molecular biology, immunology and neurobiology. However, physiology, as a mother science, remains a field of considerable historical and epistemological interest, due to its unique wealth of data, interpretations, theoretical models, and especially, its unanswered questions. Scholars interested in the experimental as well as the conceptual and theoretical aspects of the history of the physiological sciences in their broadest sense, and concerned by their place within the national and international frameworks of biomedical research, currently feel the need to meet, exchange ideas, and look for future forms of cooperation. In this spirit, a conference was organised by the Centre Européen d'Histoire de la Médecine and was held at the Medical School of the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg in March 1993. At this conference, we focused on the history of defined disciplines such as neurophysiology and endocrinology, as well as on international approaches to the history of the physiological sciences, in accordance with the research traditions and history of the University of Strasbourg.
Essays, Physiological and Philosophical, on the Distortion of the Spine
Author: Charles Henry WilkinsonPublisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology
Author: John B. WestPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493923625
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. It provides a first-hand chronicle of the advancements made in respiratory physiology starting with Galen and the beginnings of Western physiology. The volume covers every aspect of the evolution of this important area of knowledge: pulmonary circulation, Boyle’s Law, pulmonary capillaries and alveoli, morphology, gas exchange and blood flow, mechanics, control of ventilation, and comparative physiology. The book emphasizes societal and philosophical aspects of the history of science. Although it concentrates on physiology, it also describes how cultural movements, such as The Enlightenment, shaped the researchers discussed. This book is published on behalf of the American Physiological Society by Springer. Access to APS books published with Springer is free to APS members.
Essays on Physiology and Hygiene
Author: John BellPublisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Essays on the Physiology of the Nervous System
Author: Benjamin HaskellPublisher:
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Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology v. 2
Author: John HunterFallen Languages
Author: Assistant Professor of English Robert MarkleyPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801425882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Traces the importance of theology to the crisis of representation in English natural philosophy as documented by the writings of Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and their contemporaries. Finds that the tension between observed experimental phenomena and established religious and political thought led them to devise innovative theories. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry
Author: Eric ScerriPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190631546
Category : Science
Languages : en
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The philosophy of chemistry has emerged in recent years as a new and autonomous field within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. With the development of this new discipline, Eric Scerri and Grant Fisher's "Essays in the Philosophy of Chemistry" is a timely and definitive guide to all current thought in this field. This edited volume will serve to map out the distinctive features of the field and its connections to the philosophies of the natural sciences and general philosophy of science more broadly. It will be a reference for students and professional alike. Both the philosophy of chemistry and philosophies of scientific practice alike reflect the splitting of analytical and continental scholastic traditions, and some philosophers are turning for inspiration from the familiar resources of analytical philosophy to influences from the continental tradition and pragmatism. While philosophy of chemistry is practiced very much within the familiar analytical tradition, it is also capable of trail-blazing new philosophical approaches. In such a way, the seemingly disparate disciplines such as the "hard sciences" and philosophy become much more linked.