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Dubos, R. The bacterial cell in its relation to problems of virulence, immunity and chemotherapy
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René J. Dubos, C. F Robinow. The bacterial cell in its relation to problems of virulence, immunity, and chemotherapy
Series: Harvard University monographs in medicine and public health; no. 6
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Dubos, R. The cultural roots and the social fruits of science
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René J. Dubos. The cultural roots and the social fruits of science
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Dubos, R. The professor, the institute, and DNA
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René J. Dubos. The professor, the institute, and DNA
Oswald Theodore Avery is little known outside the scientific community. Yet, this extraordinary man here brought vividly to life by a perceptive friend and sophisticated scientific colleague was a monumental force in the development of medical research in the United States.
This is the story of a man and a place that were uniquely suited to each other – O.T. Avery and The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. It is also the story of a charming, forceful, and enigmatic personality – a man whose character imposed a lasting influence on his associates and on the direction of scientific investigation throughout the world. And, like any good narrative, the story has its heroes and its villains, its disappointments and its triumphs.
Only a person with the expertise, insight, and sensitivity of a Rene Dubos could have combined the science, the times, and the man with such penetration.
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Dubos, R. The resilience of ecosystems
The Rockefeller University
René J. Dubos. The resilience of ecosystems: an ecological view of environmental restoration
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Dubos, R. The torch of life; continuity in living experience
The Rockefeller University
René J. Dubos. The torch of life; continuity in living experience Series: Credo series (Simon and Schuster, inc.)
An elegant statement by a scientist who believes that science has failed to recognize the uniqueness of man
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Dubos, R. The unseen world
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René J. Dubos. The unseen world
The world seen through the looking glass – the powerful lens – of a distinguished microbiologist is a stranger would than Lewis Carroll made. It is also infinitely more dramatic when the man behind the microscope is Rene Dubos, whose view of microbes – and of men – is illumined by brilliant creativity and informed humanity.
In The Unseen World, Professor Dubos of The Rockefeller Institute clarifies for scientist and layman alike the dynamic relationships between microbes and all other forms of life. This book, like his work in the laboratory, demonstrates the progress which can be achieved when science and the humanities work together to explore and master the forces shaping man’s environment. The Unseen World is a notable contribution to civilization.
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Dubos, R. The white plague : tuberculosis, man, and society
The Rockefeller University
René J. Dubos, Jean Dubos. The white plague: tuberculosis, man, and society
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Edelman, G. Bright air, brilliant fire: on the matter of the mind
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Gerald M. Edelman. Bright air, brilliant fire: on the matter of the mind
We are on the brink of understanding ancient mysteries: how we know, what governs our nature, what makes a person different from a thing. In the last decade, more than twenty disciplines dealing with every aspect of the brain have contributed to a revolution in the neurosciences – a revolution as significant, in the view of many observers, as the Galilean and Copernican revolutions in mathematics and physics or the Darwinian revolution in biology.
In this book, one of the world’s foremost brain scientists gives us a glimpse into the workings of the human brain – the most complex material object in the universe. The book considers our place in nature and how we came to be able to describe and change it. It examines the implications of understanding the brain for philosophy, for curing mental disease, and for the possibility of building conscious artifacts. There is no greater scientific challenge than understanding the brain. Here is the book that provides a window on that understanding.
Gerald M. Edelman received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1972.
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Edelman, G. Neural Darwinism: the theory of neuronal group selection
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Gerald M. Edelman. Neural Darwinism: the theory of neuronal group selection
Already the subject of considerable pre-publication discussion, this magisterial work by one of the nation’s leading neuroscientists presents a radically new view of the function of the brain and nervous system. Its central idea is that the nervous system in each individual operates as a selective system resembling natural selection in evolution, but operating by different mechanisms. By providing a fundamental neural basis for categorization of the things of this world it unifies perception, action, and learning. The theory also completely revises our view of memory, which it considers to be a dynamic process of recategorization rather than a replicative store of attributes. This has deep implications for the interpretation of various psychological states from attention to dreaming. Neural Darwinism ranges over many disciplines, focusing on key problems in developmental and evolutionary biology, anatomy, physiology, and psychology. This book should, therefore, prove indispensable to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in these fields, to students of medicine, and to those in the social sciences concerned with the relation of behavior to biology. Beyond that, this far-ranging theory of brain function is bound to stimulate renewed discussions of such philosophical issues as the mind-body problem, the origins of knowledge, and the perceptual basis of language.
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Edelman, G., Tononi, G. A universe of consciousness: how matter becomes imagination
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Gerald M. Edelman, Giulio Tononi. A universe of consciousness: how matter becomes imagination
In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced in his monumental trilogy-Neural Darwinism, Topobiology, and The Remembered Present-to present for the first time an empirically supported full-scale theory of consciousness. He and the neurobiologist Giulio Tononi show how they use ingenious technology to detect the most minute brain currents and to identify the specific brain waves that correlate with particular conscious experiences. The results of this pioneering work challenge the conventional wisdom about consciousness.
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Edelman, G. Topobiology
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Gerald M. Edelman. Topobiology: an introduction to molecular embryology
If you had a complete copy of a dinosaur’s DNA and the genetic code, you still would not be able to make a dinosaur – or even determine what one looked like. Why? How do animals get their shape and how does shape evolve? In this important book, Nobel laureate Gerald M. Edelman challenges the notion that an understanding of the genetic code and of cell differentiation is sufficient to answer these questions.
Rather, he argues, a trio of related issues must also be investigated – the development of form, the evolution of form, and the morphological and functional bases of behavior. Edelman explores these three issues from the perspective of what he calls “topology”, the study of place-dependent interactions at the surfaces of living cells that regulate the processes of embryological development. Topobiology presents an introduction to molecular embryology and describes a comprehensive hypothesis to account for the evolution and development of animal form. A critical part of his previous work Neural Darwinism, this morphoregulator hypothesis links the control of genes to the action of molecules that bind cells together into collectives. With this new work, Edelman continues his provocative analysis of problems in development, evolution, and neuroscience, which together constitute the major challenge to be confronted by modern biology as it approaches the millennium.
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Edelstein, L. Ancient medicine
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Ludwig Edelstein, Owsei Temkin, and C. Lilian Temkin. Ancient medicine: selected papers of Ludwig Edelstein
A classic study of medicine in antiquity, Ancient Medicine brings together much of Ludwig Edelstein's most important work on a subject that occupied him throughout a distinguished career. Included is his widely known translation of and commentary on the Hippocratic Oath, as well as his other writings on the oath which demonstrate how atypical it is of Greek medical thought. The book also explores the influence of empiricism and skepticism on Greek and Roman medicine, the practice of anatomy and dietetics in antiquity, and the relation of ancient medicine to ancient philosophy.
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Edelstein, L. The Hippocratic oath
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Ludwig Edelstein. The Hippocratic oath, text, translation, and interpretation
Series: Supplements to the Bulletin of the history of medicine; no. 1In a very scholarly fashion, the author undertakes to determine the origin, purpose, and date of the Hippocratic oath by analyzing the document itself and by correlating it with knowledge of ancient Greece derived from reliable sources. ---Walter L. Palmer
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Estes, W./editor. Attention and memory
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William K Estes. Attention and memory
Series: Handbook of learning and cognitive processes; v. 4
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Frankfurt, Harry. On bullshit
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Harry G. Frankfurt. On bullshit
Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it, yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves--and we lack a conscientious appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory." Frankfurt, one of the world's most influential moral philosophers, attempts to build such a theory here. With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, he argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity, to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.
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Fruton, J. A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800
The Rockefeller University
Joseph S. Fruton. A bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800
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Fruton, J. A skeptical biochemist
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Joseph S. Fruton. A skeptical biochemist
An eminent pioneer of modern protein chemistry looks back on six decades in biochemical research and education to advance stimulating thoughts about science – how it is practiced, how it is explained, and how its history is written. Taking the title of his book from Robert Boyle’s classic, The Sceptical Chymist (1661), and Joseph Needham’s The Sceptical Biologist (1929), Joseph Fruton brings his own skeptical vision to bear on how chemistry and biology interact to describe living systems.
Biochemistry and skepticism -- Perspectives on the scientific method -- Views of Peter Medawar -- Claude Bernard and his Medicine experimentale -- Justus von Liebig on Francis Bacon -- On craftsmanship -- On hypotheses in the biochemical sciences -- Sanger and insulin: a case history -- Perils of the search for simplicity -- Interplay of biology and chemistry -- Nineteenth-century debates -- Emergence of biochemistry -- Nineteenth-century cytology, embryology, and microbiology -- Twentieth-century embryology versus genetics -- Emergence of biochemical genetics -- Sack full of enzymes? -- On biomolecular structure -- Jacques Monod and allostery -- On energy-rich phosphate bonds -- Dynamics of biochemical processes -- On biochemical function and purpose -- On specificity and individuality -- Evolutionary theory and the unity of biology -- Approaches to the history of the biochemical sciences -- On historians of chemistry -- On historians of the biochemical sciences -- On scientific disciplines -- On the origins of molecular biology -- On scientific biography and autobiography.
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Fruton, J. A supplement to a bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800
The Rockefeller University
Joseph S. Fruton. A supplement to a bio-bibliography for the history of the biochemical sciences since 1800
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Fruton, J. Contrasts in scientific style
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Joseph S. Fruton. Contrasts in scientific style: research groups in the chemical and biochemical sciences
Series: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society; v. 191
Joseph S. Fruton, well-known for his bio-bibliographical volumes on the biochemical sciences, recounts here the various styles of leadership shown by several prominent German chemists and biochemists in research groups during the period 1830 to 1914. Featured particularly are chemists Liebig, Baeyer and Emil Fisher and biochemists Hoppe-Seyler, Kuhne and Hofmeister. Biographical data about their junior associates are presented in a series of appendices.
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Fruton, J. Eighty years
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Joseph S. Fruton. Eighty years
This autobiography offers an account of an active scientific life as a student at Columbia University, as an apprentice at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and a member of the Yale University faculty. It also tells of the many friendships – with teachers, students, advisers, and colleagues – acquired during those years.
A glimpse is provided of the workings of a great American university in meeting the challenges of advances in scientific knowledge, especially in the biochemical sciences. In addition to a description of the laboratory research of Fruton’s group, an account is given of his efforts as a historian of these sciences. The story also includes recitals of the many pleasures derived from frequent travels abroad.
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Fruton, J. General biochemistry
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Joseph S. Fruton. General biochemistry
2nd. edition
The book is intended as a textbook which presents the structure of biochemistry from a general point of view.
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Fruton, J. Molecules and life; historical essays
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Joseph S. Fruton. Molecules and life; historical essays on the interplay of chemistry and biology
The continuity and complexity of the development of the biochemical sciences are frequently obscured by the euphoria attending great advances. To reestablish the historical continuum of scientific progress a leading biochemist has examined the work and thought that shaped present-day biochemistry and molecular biology. The book considers the interplay between chemistry and biology and focuses on the historically significant period from 1800 to 1950. The essays reflect the attitudes and methods of men and women who worked on important nineteenth-century problems. The author shows how their concepts and techniques evolved into the twentieth-century chemical study of living organisms.
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Fruton, J. Proteins, Enzymes, Genes
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Joseph S. Fruton. Proteins, enzymes, genes: the interplay of chemistry and biology
In this book, a distinguished scientist-historian offers a critical account of how biochemistry and molecular biology emerged as major scientific disciplines from the interplay of chemical and biological ideas and practice. Joseph S. Fruton traces the historical development of these disciplines from antiquity to the present time, examines their institutional settings, and discusses their impact on medical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural practice.
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