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| Thinking about Biology Publisher: Cambridge University Press Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: 2003-04-14 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521599547 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521599542 Binding: Paperback  Quote: Book Description: Intended for biology students, this philosophical commentary on biology makes science students' studies more interesting by offering an easy way of studying the philosophy of science, as well as engaging in debates about the social and political implications of biology. It is a unique biology textbook because it adopts an explicitly philosophical approach. Quote: Contents Introduction 1 Facts? The problem with cannabis 5 The making of the cell theory 9 The edge of the amoeba 19 How cells evolved 24 The philosophy of science 31 Reductionism An introduction 38 Examples of reductionist research 42 The two faces of reductionism 44 The general problem of scientific explanation 47 Explanation through causation 50 Metaphysics and biology 52 A review of terminology 54 Anti-reductionist biology today 58 A case study: phenylketonuria (PKU) 61 In conclusion: the problem of determinism 64 Evolution A philosophical introduction 67 The work of Charles Darwin 69 The question of time 73 The case of Jacques D´eprat 77 The myth of the coelacanth 81 Life and the illusion of progress 85 Proximate and ultimate causes in biology 89 The concept of adaptation – and its teleology 91 The scope of natural selection 95 The ‘unit’ of natural selection 106 The Darwin wars 107 Biology and animals Ethics in science: an introduction 109 Interventions: an introduction 114 Vivisection and dissection 116 Animal minds, human morals and the study of ethics 121 In conclusion 137 Controversies in biology Controversies in biology – and in the media 140 The crisis of ‘mad cow disease’ 142 Genetically modified crops 150 Xenotransplantation 156 Making sense of genes An introduction to the Human Genome Project 163 The philosophy of the Human Genome Project 166 The history of the Human Genome Project 170 Genetic testing: the case of Huntington’s disease 172 Testing for the ‘gene’ for breast cancer 175 The future of the Human Genome Project 178 The commercialisation of the genome 180 Gene testing and the doctor–patient relationship 182 Biology and politics How politics enters biology 187 The politics of Darwin 191 Eugenics: the genetic improvement of people 193 Measuring intelligence 196 Eugenics and genetics 198 Biology and the Nazis 202 The world view from evolutionary psychology 206 Research ethics A conflict of interest 210 A code of conduct 212 Peer review 216 A historical overview 218 Theories of ethics 224 Index 229  http://rapidshare.com/files/82275643/B041.rar http://www.filefactory.com/file/cd1ea7/ http://mihd.net/cxfqgr  |
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