Biology and ideology from Descartes to Dawkins
By: edited by Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers.
Contributors: Alexander, Denis.; Numbers, Ronald L.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University Of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780226608402; 9780226608419
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy; Biology -- Religious aspects; Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy; Genetics -- Philosophy; Eugenics -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison; title: Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe; title: Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill; title: Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham; title: Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram; title: Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke; title: Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson; title: Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling; title: Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov; title: Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse; title: Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam; title: Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers; title: The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.