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Escaping the historiographical blackmail of modernity: The history of nature and knowledge in Tokugawa Japan
Publication date: Available online 5 June 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Matthew James Crawford (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - June 6, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

From “life” to biology and backward: The long gestation of a scientific discipline
Publication date: Available online 5 June 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Maurizio Esposito (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - June 5, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

On the evidentiary standards for nutrition advice
Publication date: Available online 1 June 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Saana Jukola This paper evaluates the application of evidentiary standards originating from evidence-based medicine in nutrition advice. It shows that it is problematic to criticize nutrition recommendations for not being based on randomized controlled trials. Due to practical, ethical and methodological and reasons, it is difficult to conduct rigorous randomized controlled trials for acquiring evidence that is relevant for achieving...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - June 2, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The Hamiltonian view of social evolution
Publication date: Available online 25 May 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): J. Arvid Ågren (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - May 25, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The function of the heart is not obvious
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Nicholas Binney It is widely believed that the function of the heart is obviously to pump blood. I argue here that it is not. The definition, presentation, and pathophysiological explanation of heart failure, as well as the measurement of cardiac dysfunction, are not as might be expected if the function of the heart was simply to pump blood. Far from being obvious, many central features of heart failure are still being investigated. ...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - May 22, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The function of the heart is historically contingent
Publication date: Available online 17 May 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Nicholas Binney Some philosophers of medicine argue that there are objective facts about the biological function of organs, and that these facts are used to objectively define diseases. The function of the heart is taken to be particularly obvious and well established. Contrary to this, I argue that the function of the heart is not fixed by nature, but rather that it is historically contingent. The disease heart failure results from ...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - May 18, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Where to start and where to end up: Early modern knowledge-making from wish-list to notebook to archive
Publication date: Available online 18 May 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Noah Moxham (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - May 18, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Taming intellectual property in biotechnology
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Doogab Yi (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - May 3, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Much ado about mice: Standard-setting in model organism research
Publication date: Available online 12 April 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Rebecca A. Hardesty Recently there has been a practice turn in the philosophy of science that has called for analyses to be grounded in the actual doings of everyday science. This paper is in furtherance of this call and it does so by employing participant-observation ethnographic methods as a tool for discovering epistemological features of scientific practice in a neuroscience lab. The case I present focuses on a group of neurobi...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - April 12, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The significance of levels of organization for scientific research: A heuristic approach1
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Daniel S. Brooks, Markus I. Eronen The concept of 'levels of organization' has come under fire recently as being useless for scientific and philosophical purposes. In this paper, we show that 'levels' is actually a remarkably resilient and constructive conceptual tool that can be, and in fact is, used for a variety of purposes. To this effect, we articulate an account of the importance of the levels concept seen in light of its st...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - April 11, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Natural selection, plasticity, and the rationale for largest-scale trends
Publication date: Available online 9 April 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Hugh Desmond Many have argued that there is no reason why natural selection should cause directional increases in measures such as body size or complexity across evolutionary history as a whole. In this paper I argue that this conclusion does not hold for selection for adaptations to environmental variability, and that, given the inevitability of environmental variability, trends in adaptations to variability are an expected feature...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - April 10, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Essay review: Cold case reopened
Publication date: Available online 7 April 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Sander Gliboff (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - April 8, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Ancient DNA: a history of the science before Jurassic Park
Publication date: Available online 9 March 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Elizabeth D. Jones (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - March 24, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Ancient DNA: s history of the science before Jurassic Park
Publication date: Available online 9 March 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Elizabeth D. Jones (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - March 9, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The unstable collection
Publication date: Available online 1 March 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Robert Bud (Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - March 2, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research