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Dreamers, visionarie...
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Dreamers, visionaries, and revolutionaries in the life sciences / edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich.
Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Subjects
Biologists -- Biography.
Scientists -- Biography.
Biology -- Biography.
Science -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780226569901 paperback ; alkaline paper :
022656990X paperback ; alkaline paper
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324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction : Perchance to dream--fostering novelty in the life sciences / Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich -- Part I. The Evolutionists. 1. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck : biological visionary / Richard W. Burkhardt Jr. ; 2. Ernst Haeckel : a dream transformed / Robert J. Richards ; 3. Peter Kropotkin : anarchist, revolutionary, dreamer / Oren Harman -- Part II. The Medicalists. 4. Mary Lasker : citizen lobbyist for medical research / Kirsten E. Gardner ; 5. Jonas Salk : American hero, scientific outcast / Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs ; 6. The origins of "dynamic reciprocity" : Mina Bissell's expansive picture of cancer causation / Anya Plutynski -- Part III. The Molecularists. 7. W. Ford Doolittle : evolutionary provocations and a pluralistic vision / Maureen A. O'Malley ; 8. Collecting dreams in the molecular sciences : Margaret Dayhoff and The atlas of protein sequence and structure / Bruno J. Strasser ; 9. Neanderthals in space : George Church's modest steps toward possible futures / Luis Campos -- Part IV. The Ecologists. 10. From new alchemy to living machines : John Todd's dreams of ecological engineering / Michael R. Dietrich and Laura L. Lovett ; 11. Stephen Hubbell and the paramount power of randomness / Philippe Huneman ; 12. Rachel Carson : prophet for the environment / Janet Browne -- Part V. The Ethologists. 13. Jane Goodall : she dreamed of Tarzan / Dale Peterson ; 14. Francis Crick and the problem of consciousness / Rick Grush ; 15. David Sloan Wilson : visionary, idealist, ideologue / Mark E. Borrello -- Part VI. The Systematizers. 16. D'Arcy Thompson : archetypical visionary / Tim Horder ; 17. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis : "a new look at life on earth"...for the life and the earth sciences / Sébastien Dutreuil ; 18. Big dreams for small creatures : Ilana and Eugene Rosenberg's path to the hologenome theory / Ehud Lamm -- Epilogue : The scientist dreamer / Joan Roughgarden.
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