Experimenting with Humans and Animals

Experimenting with Humans and Animals
Author: Anita Guerrini
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801871979

Ethical questions about the use of animals and humans in research remain among the most vexing within both the scientific community and society at large. These often rancorous arguments have gone on, however, with little awareness of their historical antecedents. Experimentation on animals and particularly humans is often assumed to be a uniquely modern phenomenon, but the ideas and attitudes that encourage the biological and medical sciences to experiment on living creatures date from the earliest expression of Western thought. Here, Anita Guerrini looks at the history of these practices from vivisection in ancient Alexandria to present-day battles over animal rights and medical research employing human subjects. Guerrini discusses key historical episodes, including the discovery of blood circulation, the development of smallpox and polio vaccines, and recent AIDS research. She also explores the rise of the antivivisection movement in Victorian England, the modern animal rights movement, and current debates over gene therapy.--From publisher description.

Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch L, 2023

Lessing Yearbook/Jahrbuch L, 2023
Author: Carl Niekerk
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2024-02-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3835385631

Band 50 des Lessing Jahrbuchs ist ein Sonderband zum Thema "Die Aufklärung und die Geschichte der Natur" und enthält Beiträge zu Lessings kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit den Naturvorstellungen seiner Zeit: Lessing und Mylius` Natur-Konzept; Naturvorstellungen in der biblischen Dichtung des 18. Jahrhunderts; Pflanzen und Emotionen bei Buffon, Linnaeus und Humboldt; Sophie von La Roches "Erscheinungen am See Oneida"; Herders Kritik des teleologischen Historizismus Kants; Andreas Riems Klima-Theorie, und Goethes Wissenschaft der Natur.

The Modern Language Review

The Modern Language Review
Author: John George Robertson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1913
Genre: Languages, Modern
ISBN:

Each number includes the section "Reviews."

The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization

The Beginnings of Plant Hybridization
Author: Conway Zirkle
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 151280908X

A review of speculation on plant hybridization from classical times up to the early eighteenth century, reprinting the work of twenty-nine plant hybridizers who preceded Koelreuter.

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers
Author: Heiner F. Klemme
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 939
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1474255981

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investigation, it features more than 650 entries on the eighteenth-century philosophers, theologians, jurists, physicians, scholars, writers, literary critics and historians whose work has had lasting philosophical significance. Alongside well-known German philosophers of that era-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel-the Dictionary provides rare insights into the lives and minds of lesser-known individuals who influenced the shape of philosophy. Each entry discusses a particular philosopher's life, contributions to the world of thought, and later influences, focusing not only on their most important published writings, but on relevant minor works as well. Bibliographical references to primary and secondary source material are included at the end of entries to encourage further reading, while extensive cross-referencing allows comparisons to be easily made between different thinkers' ideas and practices. For anyone looking to understand more about the century when enlightenment thinking arrived in Germany and established conceits were challenged, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a valuable, unparalleled resource.

Scholars in Action (2 vols)

Scholars in Action (2 vols)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 962
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004243917

In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.

New Mattheson Studies

New Mattheson Studies
Author: George J. Buelow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521033312

This collection of essays brings together the current research on Johann Mattheson (1681-1764), an influential musician and chronicler of musical thought in eighteenth-century Germany. The essays explore the cultural climate of Hamburg during Mattheson's lifetime; Mattheson as a composer; Mattheson's relationship to his contemporaries; and Mattheson's influence on developing musical theories and aesthetics.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Author: Hugh Barr Nisbet
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 749
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199679479

"Sets [Lessing's] life and work in the context of the intellectual, social, and cultural background of eighteenth-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.