History of life sciences and medicine. 3, Contemporary era (19th to 21st Centuries) /
Writing the recent history of life sciences is an exciting but demanding undertaking. Some disciplines are emerging while others are disappearing; above all, they are now intertwined and overlapping, constantly shifting their boundaries. However, despite the resulting complexity, certain fundamental...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK : Hoboken, NJ :
ISTE ; Wiley,
2026.
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| Series: | History of sciences. Life sciences
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Writing the recent history of life sciences is an exciting but demanding undertaking. Some disciplines are emerging while others are disappearing; above all, they are now intertwined and overlapping, constantly shifting their boundaries. However, despite the resulting complexity, certain fundamental cross-disciplinary concepts continue to structure research, giving biology a coherent overall identity. History of Life Sciences and Medicine 3 takes a conceptual approach to history, aiming to reflect the contemporary constitution of the field of life sciences. It thus addresses some of the most representative concepts from a historical and epistemological perspective, for example, those that have particularly structured the field of life sciences since the 19th and 20th centuries. Ten key biological concepts are analyzed: the origin of life, evolution, the ecosystem, the cell, metabolism, the gene, development, immunity, the brain and pathology. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781394446599 1394446594 |