TY  - BOOK
AU  - Desmond,Adrian J.
TI  - The politics of evolution: morphology, medicine, and reform in radical London 
T2  - Science and its conceptual foundations
SN  - 9780226144535 (electronic bk.)
AV  - QL810 .D47 1989eb
U1  - 575/.09421/09034 22
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Anatomy, Comparative
KW  - Research
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Biological Evolution
KW  - Zoology
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Science
KW  - Anatomie comparée
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Londres
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Évolution
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Life Sciences
KW  - Evolution
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Evolutietheorie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vergelijkende anatomie
KW  - Évolution (biologie)
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - ram
KW  - Évolutionnisme
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-466) and index; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Evolution and Society: Setting the Scene; 2. Importing the New Morphology; 3. Reforming the Management of Medicine and Science: The Radical Perspective; 4. Nonconformist Anatomy in the Private Schools; 5. Accommodation and Domestication: Dealing with Geoffroy's Anatomy; 6. Science under Siege: Forging an Idealist Comparative Anatomy at the College of Surgeons; 7. Engaging the Lamarckians; 8. Embryology, Archetypes, and Idealism: New Directions in Comparative Anatomy; 9. Grasping the Nettle: Some Concluding Remarks
N2  - Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in the generation before Darwin as it has never been seen before." The Politics of Evolution is intellectual dynamite, and certainly one of the most important books in the history of science published during the past decade."--Jim Secord, Times Literary Supplement. "One of those rare boo
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