Studies in History of Biology

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Studies in History of Biology was an annual publication edited by William Coleman and Camille Limoges and published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, in seven volumes from 1977 to 1984.

Volumes[edit]

  • Vol. 1 (1977) 232 pp. ISBN 0-8018-1862-1
    • Ravin, Arnold R.: The gene as catalyst, the gene as organism. 1-45. PMID 11609975
    • Albury, William Randall: Experiment and explanation in the physiology of Bichat and Magendie. 47–131. PMID 11609978
    • Cowan, Ruth Schwartz: Nature and nurture: the interplay of biology and politics in the work of Francis Galton. 133–208. PMID 11609976
    • Holmes, Frederic L.: Conceptual history: a review of François Jacob, La Logique du Vivant - The Logic of Life. 209–218. PMID 11609977
  • Vol. 2 (1978) 224 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2034-0
  • Vol. 3 (1979) 297 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2215-7 - A festschrift for Ernst Mayr on his 75th birthday in 1979.
  • Vol. 4 (1980) 206 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2362-5
    • Leys, Ruth: Background to the reflex controversy: William Alison and the doctrine of sympathy before Hall. 1-66. PMID 11615829
    • Kohn, David: Theories to work by: rejected theories, reproduction and Darwin's path to natural selection. 67–170. PMID 11615830
    • Cittadino, Eugene: Ecology and the professionalization of botany in America. 171–198.
  • Vol. 5 (1981) 216 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2566-0
    • Cross, Stephen J.: John Hunter, the animal oeconomy, and late eighteenth-century physiological discourse. 5: 1–110. PMID 11611008
    • Timothy Lenoir: The Göttingen School and the development of transcendental Naturphilosophie in the Romantic Era. 111–205. PMID 11611009
  • Vol. 6 (1982) 231 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2856-2
    • Hodge, M.J.S.: Darwin and the laws of the animate part of the terrestrial system (1835-1837): on the Lyellian origins of his zoonomical explanatory program. 1–106.
    • Maienschein, J.: Experimental biology in transition: Harrison's embryology, 1895–1910. 107–127.
    • Haraway, Donna: Signs of dominance: from a physiology to a cybernetics of primate society, C.R. Carpenter, 1930–1970. 129–219.
  • Vol. 7 (1984) 160 pp. ISBN 0-8018-2995-X[1]
    • Eddy, J.H.: Buffon, organic alterations, and man. 1-45. PMID 11611371
    • Jacyna, L.S.: Principles of general physiology: the comparative dimension of British neuroscience in the 1830s and 1840s. 7: 47–92. PMID 11611372

References[edit]

  1. ^ McClung, Leland S. (December 1985). "Review of Studies in the History of Biology, vol. 7, edited by William Coleman and Camille Limoges". The American Biology Teacher. 47 (8): 501. doi:10.2307/4448167. JSTOR 4448167.