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Author : Jacques Loeb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783752409468
Reproduction of the original: The Organism as a Whole From a Physicochemical Viewpoint by Jacques Loeb
Author : Jacques Loeb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1330476786
Excerpt from The Organism as a Whole, From a Physicochemical Viewpoint It is generally admitted that the individual physiological processes, such as digestion, metabolism, the production of heat or of electricity, are of a purely physicochemical character; and it is also conceded that the functions of individual organs, such as the eye or the ear, are to be analysed from the viewpoint of the physicist. When, however, the biologist is confronted with the fact that in the organism the parts are so adapted to each other as to give rise to a harmonious whole; and that the organisms are endowed with structures and instincts calculated to prolong their life and perpetuate their race, doubts as to the adequacy of a purely physicochemical viewpoint in biology may arise. The difficulties besetting the biologist in this problem have been rather increased than diminished by the discovery of Mendelian heredity, according to which each character is transmitted independently of any other character. Since the number of Mendelian characters in each organism is large, the possibility must be faced that the organism is merely a mosaic of independent hereditary characters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jacques Loeb
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:4064066234430
"The Organism as a Whole, from a Physicochemical Viewpoint" by Jacques Loeb Jacques Loeb was a German-born American physiologist and biologist, and his career gave him the experience necessary to attempt to tackle life and biology from a more chemical point of view. In this book, he refutes claims that chemistry and physics are far-removed from biology and that these sciences work entirely independently of each other.
Author : Paul Weindling
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781580462891
John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the biography of a doctor whose revulsion at Nazi human experiments prompted him to seek a humane basis for physician-patient relations. As a military-scientific intelligence officer in 1945, Thompson was the first to name "medical war crimes" as a category for prosecution. His investigations laid the groundwork for the Nuremberg medical trials and for the novel idea of "informed consent." Yet, Thompson has remained a little-known figure, despite his many scientific, literary, and religious connections. This book traces Thompson's life from his birth in Mexico, through his studies at Stanford, Edinburgh, and Harvard, and his service in the Canadian Air Force. It reconstructs his therapeutic work with Unesco in Germany and his time as a Civil Rights activist in New York, where he developed his concept of holistic medicine. Thompson was close to authors like Auden and Spender and inspirational religious figures like Jean Vanier, founder of L'Arche. He drew on ideas of Freud, Jung, and Buber. The philosophical and religious dimensions of Thompson's response to Holocaust victims' suffering are key to this study, which cites accounts of psychiatrists, students and patients who knew Thompson personally, war crimes prosecution records, and unpublished personal papers. Paul Weindling is Wellcome Trust Research Professor at the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society: Past and Present, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Author : Benoit Godin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gene mapping
ISBN : 0415328497
Governments and researchers from industrial countries have been measuring science and technology for more than seventy years. This book provides an historical examination of official science and technology statistics and indicators in Western countries and addresses the following questions: What were the main historical moments that led to the development of statistics on science and technology? What were the main socio-political stakes behind the activities of science measurement? What were the philosophical and ideological conceptions that drove measurement? What statistics and indicators were developed and how were they constructed? The first part of the book concentrates on the construction and development of science and technology statistics from 1930 to the present, the principles at work, and the vested interests and forces behind that construction. The second part analyzes to what uses statistics were put, and with how much confidence actors used statistics to document their case or to promote their political agenda.
Author : Frank Moore Colby,Talcott Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015053692920
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951000445880G
Author : Frank Moore Colby,Talcott Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008445764
Author : Frank Moore Colby,Talcott Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : IOWA:31858064355831
Author : Francisco Ayala,Francisco José Ayala,Francisco Jose Ayala,Theodosius Dobzhansky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520026497
Author : Phillip R. Sloan,Brandon Fogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226767826
Despite its historical impact on the biological sciences, the paper entitled 'On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure' has remained largely inaccessible because it was only published in a short-lived German periodical. This book makes the 'Three Man' Paper available in English for the first time.
Author : Thomas Padiyath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110374612
This study attempts to elucidate a possible meeting point of the traditions of Eastern and Western metaphysical thinking. In discussing Whitehead’s and Aurobindo’s views on being and becoming, it seeks the possibility of a better engagement between the East and the West in the light of the philosophical insights. It is an initiation into the Sitz im Leben of Whitehead’s philosophy and his general thought pattern. It carries a perceptive analysis to show the clear primacy of Becoming or Process in Whitehead that extends even to the Divine. It also highlights Aurobindo as a unique Indian Philosopher, who articulated Indian thought in Western categories. He was able to integrate the evolutionary theory of the West with the Indian understanding of becoming. The relationship between God and Creativity and Sachchidananda and the Supermind is studied within the context of Enlightenment and Modernity and the way of doing philosophy in the West and in the East.
Author : C. Ross Ethier,Craig A. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781139461825
Introductory Biomechanics is a new, integrated text written specifically for engineering students. It provides a broad overview of this important branch of the rapidly growing field of bioengineering. A wide selection of topics is presented, ranging from the mechanics of single cells to the dynamics of human movement. No prior biological knowledge is assumed and in each chapter, the relevant anatomy and physiology are first described. The biological system is then analyzed from a mechanical viewpoint by reducing it to its essential elements, using the laws of mechanics and then tying mechanical insights back to biological function. This integrated approach provides students with a deeper understanding of both the mechanics and the biology than from qualitative study alone. The text is supported by a wealth of illustrations, tables and examples, a large selection of suitable problems and hundreds of current references, making it an essential textbook for any biomechanics course.
Author : Richard L. Summers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527557895
The central question in the biological sciences for the past 100 years has concerned an understanding of how living systems differ from other general physical phenomena and what makes these systems unique. With new developments in the fields of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, systems theory, chaos, and information theory over the past few decades, there has been growing interest in finally answering the question first posed by Erwin Schrödinger in the 1940s concerning the true scientific nature of living systems. Similarly, there is also increasing interest within the biologic community for a more holistic and non-reductionist methodology. The approach followed in this book builds on a foundation of information theory and semiotics while integrating basic thermodynamic considerations and systems theory to form a singular unifying concept that is proposed to be the essential process of living systems. However, the premise presented is much more than simply the exposition of a new hypothesis. This book describes the logical progression of thought incorporating a diverse array of established scientific ideas that were used in the conceptualization of a dynamic mathematical framework that can be employed as a novel analytic means for the study of living systems and their fundamental processes.
Author : Herbert A. Simon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262537537
Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird. Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including economic systems, the business firm, artificial intelligence, complex engineering projects, and social plans, Simon argues that designed systems are a valid field of study, and he proposes a science of design. For this third edition, originally published in 1996, Simon added new material that takes into account advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. Simon won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations and the Turing Award (considered by some the computer science equivalent to the Nobel) with Allen Newell in 1975 for contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. The Sciences of the Artificial distills the essence of Simon's thought accessibly and coherently. This reissue of the third edition makes a pioneering work available to a new audience.
