An epistemology of the concrete
Subtitle: twentieth-century histories of life
By: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ; foreword by Tim Lenoir
Series: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices; Experimental futures
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780822345602; 9780822345756
Work titles: Epistemologie des Konkreten
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ludwik Fleck, Edmund Husserl : on the historicity of scientific knowledge; title: Gaston Bachelard : the concept of "phenomenotechnique"; title: Georges Canguilhem : epistemological history; title: Pisum : Carl Correns's experiments on Xenia, 1896-99; title: Eudorina : Max Hartmann's experiments on biological regulation in protozoa, 1914-21; title: Ephestia : Alfred Kähn's experimental design for a developmental physiological; title: Genetics, 1924-45; title: Tobacco mosaic virus : virus research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Biochemistry and Biology, 1937-45; title: The concept of the gene : molecular biological perspectives; title: The liquid scintillation counter : traces of radioactivity; title: The concept of information : the writings of François Jacob; title: Intersections; title: Preparations; title: The economy of the scribble.