The Problem of Life
Subtitle: An Essay in the Origins of Biological Thought
By: C. U. M. Smith.
Publisher: Halsted Press; Wiley
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy.
Description: "Presents an account of the ways scientists and others have perceived life and living processes from the times of the early Greek philosophers to the twentieth century ... The book follows out several major themes in the history of biological thought. How is it possible to harmonise atomism and organism? What has happened to the concept of the soul which played so important a part in early biologies? To what extent does our technology influence our understanding of the living process? These and other questions are seen as instances of a major movement in the history of biological thought: a movement from an Aristotelian to a Cartesian vision of the nature of life"--Publisher description.
Notes: "A Halsted Press book."

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 315-329.