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Science -- History.
Animal experimentation -- History.
Botany -- History.
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Harré, Rom.
Research -- History.
Science -- History.
Animal experimentation -- History.
Botany -- History.
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Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / Rom Harré.
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Harré, Rom.
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Call #:
507
.2
H296p
Subjects
Research -- History.
Science -- History.
Animal experimentation -- History.
Botany -- History.
ISBN:
9780199238569 (hbk.)
0199238561 (hbk.)
Description:
xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-311) and index.
Contents:
Instruments and apparatus : tools for experimenting -- Detecting : hyenas, frogs, zebra fish, and assorted farm animals -- Measuring : the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen, and pollen grains -- Extending an established domain : dogs, horses, frogs, and trees -- Exploring a new domain : a bald mouse, two chimpanzees, and some people -- Testing hypotheses : more dogs, monkeys, and ticks -- Modelling individuals : yet more dogs, a few mice, and one human stomach -- Modelling worlds : voles, peas, fruit flies, finches, and deep oceanic worms -- Practising deception : spring wheat and midwife toads -- Inventing novel beings : an imaginary cat and virtual life forms.
Summary:
Rom Harre provides a fresh perspective on research, setting aside moral reflection to simply examine the history of how and why living creatures have been used for the purposes of discovery. From Gregor Mendel's use of pea plants to explore heredity, to Barry Marshall's used of himself as the experimental animal in his helicobacter experiments (he survived) and even the use of an imaginary cat in Schrodinger's famous thought experiment, the reader encounters a new perspective on scientific work.
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