Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858 by Elwick, James

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966340)

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Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858 by Elwick, James

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

$55.00
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858 by Elwick, James

Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858

$55.00
Format: Paperback
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Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units. Discussion of a "bodily economy" was widespread. But by 1860, the most flamboyant discussions of compound individuality had come to an end in Britain. Elwick relates the growth and decline of questions about compound individuality to wider nineteenth-century debates about research standards and causality. He uses specific technical case studies to address overarching themes of reason and scientific method.

Author: James Elwick
ISBN-10: 0822966344
ISBN-13: 9780822966340
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 244
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d
By James Elwick
By James Elwick
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James Elwick is associate professor of science and technology studies at York University. He is the author of Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858, and currently works on how standardized achievement tests actually became standardized.

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