Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B Silvers

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Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B Silvers

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Zusammenfassung

Five top writers on science, including Jonathan Miller and Oliver Sacks, have collaborated to produce this book which looks at the ways that major discoveries in biology, physics and medicine have been suppressed or misunderstood.

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Hidden Histories of Science by Robert B Silvers

Five top writers on science have collaborated to produce this book which looks at the ways that major discoveries in biology, physics and medicine have been suppressed or misunderstood. Stephen Jay Gould gives a summary of his critique of conventional "progressive" pictures of evolutionary change. Richard Lewontin rejects the attempt to reduce the complexity of living things to the simplicity of physics. Oliver Sacks offers a tour of scientific roads not taken, or taken too late. Daniel Kevles recounts the strange story of resistance to the idea that viruses can cause cancer. And Jonathan Miller shows how the discredited panacea of hypnotism could have helped to reveal a non-Freudian view of the unconscious.

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ISBN 13 9781862071001
ISBN 10 1862071004
Titel Hidden Histories of Science
Autor Robert B Silvers
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Granta Books
Erscheinungsjahr 1998-03-19
Seitenanzahl 208
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