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Hidden histories of science

Title
Hidden histories of science / edited by Robert B. Silvers.
Publication
New York : New York Review of Books, ©1995.

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Additional Authors
Silvers, Robert B.
Description
iii, 193 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Essays by Oliver Sacks, Jonathan Miller, Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel J. Kevles, & R.C. Lewontin explore forgotten and neglected aspects of the history of science.
Subject
  • Medicine > History
  • Science > History
  • Medical sciences > History
  • History of Medicine
  • Research > history
  • Science > history
  • history of medicine
  • Medical sciences
  • Medicine
  • Science
  • Exacte wetenschappen
  • Culturele invloeden
  • História da ciência
  • Medicina (história)
  • Recherche > Histoire
  • Médecine > Histoire
  • Sciences > Histoire
  • Sciences de la santé > Histoire
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Going unconscious / Jonathan Miller -- Ladders and cones : constraining evolution by canonical icons / Stephen Jay Gould -- Pursuing the unpopular : a history of courage, viruses, and cancer / Daniel J. Kevles -- Genes, environment and organisms / R.C. Lewontin -- Scotoma : forgetting and neglect in science / Oliver Sacks.
ISBN
  • 094032203X
  • 9780940322035
  • 0940322056
  • 9780940322059
LCCN
95001019
OCLC
  • ocm31971411
  • 31971411
  • SCSB-2053294
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library