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Adrian Desmond

The Politics of Evolution

Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London

514 pages, 46 halftones, 1 map  6 x 9  © 1989
Series: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226143460   Published May 1992

Paper $39.00

ISBN: 9780226143743   Published April 1992

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
Afterword: Putting Darwin in the Picture
Appendix A: Comparative Anatomy Teachers in London in the 1830s
Appendix B: Biographical List of British Medical Men
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • Pfizer Award for a Distinguished Book in the History of
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