Overview
- The authors combine a classic humanistic intellectual approach with a deep understanding of the fundamental questions in life sciences
- A fascinating account of how the tools of biologists developed through time, to the point of allowing the manipulation of genes and developmental functions
- Explains in clear and simple terms the milestone discoveries and inventions in life sciences, from Greek philosophy to the latest achievements of the 21st century
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- MB09
- Renaissance
- biochemistry, chemical biology and biotechnology explained
- birth and rise of molecular biology
- ethics
- ethics of contemporary biology
- experimentation on higher or
- experimentation on higher organisms
- history of life sciences
- milestone experiments in biology
- physical and chemical analytical technics
- scientific philosophy
- understanding life
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“A strikingly complete yet highly readable history of biomedical sciences, from BCE to the present, would be invaluable to scientists of all ages. In this well-written work translated from the original French version, accomplished biochemists Pierre Vignais … and Paulette Vignais (emer., CNRS, France) went one step further and painted a seamless picture of the evolution of the scientific method on a superb historical backdrop. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels, researchers/faculty, and professionals.” (B. D. Spiegelberg, Choice, Vol. 48 (5), January, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Pierre VIGNAIS, was a science doctor, doctor of medicine, was treasurer of the Fondation Roux at the Pasteur Institute of Paris. Professor emeritus of Biochemistry of the medical college of the University Joseph Fourier and director of a URA-CNRS at the ECA. He died in September 2006 at the age of 80.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Discovering Life, Manufacturing Life
Book Subtitle: How the experimental method shaped life sciences
Authors: Pierre V. Vignais, Paulette M. Vignais
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3767-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3766-4Published: 01 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8203-6Published: 13 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3767-1Published: 21 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 418
Additional Information: English translation of "Science expérimentale et connaissance du vivant. La méthode et les concepts" by Pierre V. Vignais and Paulette Vignais, originally published by EDP Sciences, 2006
Topics: Biochemistry, general, History of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Popular Science, general, Ethics