Experimenting at the Boundaries of Life - Organic Vitality in Germany Around 1800

Traces the debates surrounding the first articulations of a science of life in a variety of texts and practices centered on German contexts. Joan Steigerwald examines the experiments on the processes of organic vitality, such as excitability and generation, undertaken across the fields of natural history, physiology, physics and chemistry.

About the author

Joan Steigerwald is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities, the graduate programs in humanities, science and technology studies, and social and political thought at York University.

Summary

Examines Debates Surrounding the First Articulations of a Science of Life and Experiments on the Processes of Organic Vitality

Product details

• Authors: Joan Steigerwald
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780822945536
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-4553-6
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 187 mm x 236 mm x 48 mm
• Weight: 1040 g
• Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Sci & Culture in the Nineteent; Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century; Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)