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Topics
Biology: constructing
a field
The nature of life
Prehistory: reductionism
and vitalism
Chemical explanation
Physical explanation
Targets and politics
Microbiology
Cell theory
Bacteriology and the germ theory
of disease
The experimental ideal |
Names and terms
morphology, physiology, systematics
mechanical philosophy
iatrochemistry
reductionism, vitalism, materialism
Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882)
synthesis of urea (1828)
the organic physicists: Ernst
Brücke, Carl Ludwig, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz
Naturphilosophie
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902)
Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1804-1881)
Theodor Schwann (1810-1882)
cellular pathology
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
vaccine
rabies, anthrax
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
antiseptic, aseptic
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
François Magendie (1783-1855)
vivisection |
