Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences
Title:
Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences
Author:
Canguilhem, Georges, 1904-1995.
ISBN:
9780262031370
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Ideologie et rationalite dans l'histoire des sciences de la vie. English
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1988.
Physical Description:
xi, 160 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Translation of: Ideologie et rationalite dans l'histoire des sciences de la vie.
Contents:
What is a scientific ideology? -- John Brown's System: An example of medical ideology -- Bacteriology and the end of nineteenth-century medical theory -- The development of the concept of biological regulation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- On the history of the life sciences since Darwin -- The question of normality in the history of biological thinking