HOMEOSTATIS:  ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT
Series: Benchmark papers in human physiology
Publisher: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Stroudsburg, Pa
Language: eng
Notes: Selections from treatises and periodicals 1775-1964.
Table of contents: title: I. The power of the body to destroy heat --; title: 1. Experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --; title: 2. Further experiments and observations in an heated room / Charles Blagden --; title: 3. Of the heat, etc. of animals and vegetables / John Hunter --; title: II. Le Miliue intérieur --; title: 4. Traité de chimie anatomique et physiologique normale et pathologique/treatise of anatomical and physiological chemistry, normal and pathologic / Charles Robin and F. Verdeil --; title: 5. Introduction of the method / Claude Bernard --; title: 6. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --; title: 7. Leçons sur les propriétés physiologiques et les altérations pathologiques des liquides de l'organisme/Lectures on the physiological properties and the pathological alterations of the liquids of the organism / Claude Bernard --; title: 8. Chapter I, Experimental considerations common to living things and inorganic bodies / Claude Bernard --; title: 9. Leçons sur le phenomènes le la vie, communs aux animaux et aux vegetaus/Lessons on the phenomena of life common to animals and vegetables / Claude Bernard --; title: 10. The teleologic mechanism of living nature / E. Pflüger --; title: 11. The influence of the environment on the composition of blood of aquatic animals / Leon Fredericq --; title: 12. Functions of defense / C. Ricket --; title: III. Homeostasis --; title: 13. The fitness of the environment : an inquiry into the biological significance of the properties of matter / Lawrence J. Henderson --; title: 14. Claude Bernard's conception of the internal environment / J.S. Haldane --; title: 15. The physiological basis of thirst / Walter B. Cannon --; title: 16. Studies on the conditions of activity in endocrine glands / W.B. Cannon, M.A. McIver and S.W. Bliss --; title: 17. Some general feature of endocrine influence on metabolism / W.B. Cannon --; title: 18. Physiological regulation of normal states : some tentative postulates concerning biological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --; title: 19. Organization for physiological homeostasis / W.B. Cannon --; title: 20. Displacement of equilibrium / Alfred J. Lotka --; title: IV. Closing the feedback loop --; title: 21. The thermal homeostasis of man / T.H. Benzinger --; title: 22. Feedback theory and its application to biological systems with a commentary by B.R Wilkins / K.E. Machin.