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Footnotes to Frankenstein
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Jon Turney (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 - February 4, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Broadening heredity
Publication date: Available online 5 January 2018 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Alex Aylward (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 - January 5, 2018 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

A brain worth keeping? Waste, value and time in contemporary brain banking
Publication date: Available online 30 December 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Thomas Erslev If a temporal rather than spatial concept of waste is adopted, novel categories emerge which are useful for identifying and understanding logics of temporality at play in determining what is kept in contemporary brain banks, and reveal that brain banks are constituted by more than stored materials. First, I apply the categories analytically on a recent UK brain banking discussion among professionals. This analysis ...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - December 30, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Riding the wave into a crisper future?
Publication date: Available online 7 December 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Stephan Guttinger (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 - December 8, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Universal etiology, multifactorial diseases and the constitutive model of disease classification
Publication date: Available online 6 December 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Jonathan Fuller Infectious diseases are often said to have a universal etiology, while chronic and noncommunicable diseases are said to be multifactorial in their etiology. It has been argued that the universal etiology of an infectious disease results from its classification using a monocausal disease model. In this article, I will reconstruct the monocausal model and argue that modern ‘multifactorial diseases’ are not monoc...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - December 7, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

“How nationality influences Opinion”: Darwinism and palaeontology in France (1859–1914)
Publication date: Available online 27 November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Claudine Cohen This paper discusses the “non-reception” of Darwin's works and concepts in French palaeontology and palaeoanthropology between 1859 and 1914. Indeed, this integration was difficult, biased and belated, for ideological, intellectual and epistemological reasons: Clémence Royer's biased 1862 translation of Darwin's Origin of Species pulled its ideas toward “social darwinism”, making them less attractive to t...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - November 27, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Octopuses as conscious exotica
Publication date: Available online 15 November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Marta Halina (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 - November 17, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

The implications of human and other animal displays in U.S. based museums
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): John Mathew (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 - November 15, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Genera, evolution, and botanists in 1940: Edgar Anderson's “Survey of Modern Opinion”
Publication date: Available online 11 November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Kim Kleinman (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 - November 12, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Engaging with a genealogy of health: Biopolitics and Korean medicine
Publication date: Available online 7 November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): John P. DiMoia (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 - November 8, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Galton, reversion and the quincunx: The rise of statistical explanation
Publication date: Available online 27 October 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): André Ariew, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice Over the last six decades there has been a consistent trend in the philosophy literature to emphasize the role of causes in scientific explanation. The emphasis on causes even pervades discussions of non-causal explanations. For example, the concern of a recent paper by Marc Lange (2013b) is whether purported cases of statistical explanation are “really statistical” or really causal. ...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - October 28, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Manifest ambiguity: Intermediate forms, variation, and mammal paleontology in Argentina, 1830 –1880
Publication date: Available online 16 October 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Irina Podgorny This paper presents the impact of diverse aspects of Darwin's works on the practices of mammal paleontology in different moments of nineteenth-century Argentina. Starting with Darwin through the publications of Florentino Ameghino, it shows the extraordinary complexity of systematic paleontology that characterized the second half of the nineteenth century. Neither “natural selection” nor “struggle for life”...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - October 22, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Epigenetics: A way to bridge the gap between biological fields
Publication date: Available online 13 October 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Antonine Nicoglou, Francesca Merlin The concept of epigenetics has evolved since Waddington defined it from the late 1930s as the study of the causal mechanisms at work in development. It has become a multi-faceted notion with different meanings, depending on the disciplinary context it is used. In this article, we first analyse the transformations of the concept of epigenetics, from Waddington to contemporary accounts, in order...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - October 14, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Evidence of mechanism in the evaluation of streptomycin and thalidomide
Publication date: Available online 12 October 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Donald Gillies This paper considers what evidence is needed to establish the effectiveness and safety of a drug therapy. The claim that A cures D is a particular case of a causal claim in medicine. So the paper begins with a general analysis of the evidence for causal claims in medicine. Such evidence is divided into two types: statistical evidence and evidence of mechanism. These are further divided into observational and interv...
Source: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - October 13, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research

Grains of paradise and reading against the grain: Telling stories about science in the Global South
Publication date: Available online 12 October 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Author(s): Minakshi Menon (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 - October 13, 2017 Category: History of Medicine Source Type: research