false 8247 13221 0226450635 9780226450636 4 <![CDATA[Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166544143m/13221.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166544143s/13221.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13221.Lords_of_the_Fly_Drosophila_Genetics_and_the_Experimental_Life 3.78 9 Drosophila, has long been one of the most productive of all laboratory animals. From 1910 to 1940, the center of Drosophila culture in America was the school of Thomas Hunt Morgan and his students Alfred Sturtevant and Calvin Bridges. They first created "standard" flies through inbreeding and by organizing a network for exchanging stocks of flies that spread their practices around the world.

In Lords of the Fly, Robert E. Kohler argues that fly laboratories are a special kind of ecological niche in which the wild fruit fly is transformed into an artificial animal with a distinctive natural history. He shows that the fly was essentially a laboratory tool whose startling productivity opened many new lines of genetic research. Kohler also explores the moral economy of the "Drosophilists": the rules for regulating access to research tools, allocating credit for achievements, and transferring authority from one generation of scientists to the next.

By closely examining the Drosophilists' culture and customs, Kohler reveals essential features of how experimental scientists do their work.</div>]]> 8247 3.62 13 4 1994 1249999 0691125392 9780691125398 0 <![CDATA[All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259775m/1249999.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259775s/1249999.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1249999.All_Creatures_Naturalists_Collectors_and_Biodiversity_1850_1950 3.25 4 We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know surprisingly little about the practical work that produced the vast inventory we have to date of our fellow creatures. How were these multitudinous creatures collected, recorded, and named? When, and by whom?

Here a distinguished historian of science tells the story of the modern discovery of biodiversity. Robert Kohler argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history surveys. Supported by governments, museums, and universities, biologists launched hundreds of collecting expeditions to every corner of the world. Kohler conveys to readers the experience and feel of expeditionary travel: the customs and rhythms of collectors' daily work, and its special pleasures and pains.

A novel twist in this story is that survey collecting was rooted not just in science but also in new customs of outdoor recreation, such as hiking, camping, and sport hunting. These popular pursuits engendered a wide scientific interest in animals and plants and inspired wealthy nature-goers to pay for expeditions. The modern discovery of biodiversity became a reality when scientists' desire to know intersected with the culture of outdoor vacationing. General readers as well as scholars will find this book fascinating.

]]> 8247 3.62 13 4 2006 1250001 0226460029 9780226460024 0 <![CDATA[Osiris, Volume 11: Science in the Field]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259778m/1250001.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259778s/1250001.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1250001.Osiris_Volume_11_Science_in_the_Field 0.0 0
Included are "Gender, Culture, and Astrophysical Fieldwork: Elizabeth Campbell and the Lick Observatory-Crocker Eclipse Expeditions," by Alex Soo-jung-Kim Pang; "Wallace in Other Lands," by Jane Camerini; "The Heroic Science of Glacier Motion," by Bruce Hevly; "Objectivity or Heroism: Invisibility of Women in Science," by Naomi Oreskes; "When Nature is the Zoo: Vision and Power in the Art and Science of Natural History," by Gregg Mitman; "Manly Men in Scientific Balloons: Meteorology and the Victorian Scientist as Romantic Hero," by Jennifer Tucker; "Paul du Chaillu and Construction of Authority," by Stuart McCook; "Of Sangfroid and Sphinx Moths: Cruelty, Public Relations, and Entomology, 1800-1840," by Anne Larsen Hollerbach; "The Ship as a Scientific Instrument in the 18th Century," by Richard Sorrenson; and "'A Tent with a View:' Colonial Officers, Anthropologists, and the Making of the Field in Northern Rhodesia, 1937-1960," by Lynette Schumaker.
</div>]]> 8247 3.62 13 4 1996 1250000 0226450104 9780226450100 0 <![CDATA[Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259777m/1250000.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259777s/1250000.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1250000.Landscapes_and_Labscapes_Exploring_the_Lab_Field_Border_in_Biology 0.0 0
In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.</div>]]> 8247 3.62 13 4 2002 1250002 0226450600 9780226450605 0 <![CDATA[Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900-1945]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259780m/1250002.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182259780s/1250002.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1250002.Partners_in_Science_Foundations_and_Natural_Scientists_1900_1945 0.0 0
"This book is a rich historical tapestry of people, institutions and scientific ideas. It will stand for a long time as a source of precise and detailed information about an important aspect of the scientific enterprise. . .It also contains many valuable lessons for the coming years."—John Ziman, Times Higher Education Supplement</div>]]> 8247 3.62 13 4 1991 1250003 0849366976 9780849366970 0 <![CDATA[Antigen Detection to Diagnose Bacterial Infections: Applications, Set]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1250003.Antigen_Detection_to_Diagnose_Bacterial_Infections_Applications_Set 0.0 0 8247 3.62 13 4 1987 3817461 0941901335 9780941901338 0 <![CDATA[From Medical Chemistry to Biochemistry: The Making of a Biomedical Discipline (Cambridge Monographs on the History of Medicine)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3817461.From_Medical_Chemistry_to_Biochemistry_The_Making_of_a_Biomedical_Discipline 0.0 0 8247 3.62 13 4 1982