History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences最新文献

Listening to placebos: the contested lessons of antidepressants debates.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00656-0

Renata Prati

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Can science help discover the nature of well-being?

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00653-3

Antonin Broi

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Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840-1909.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00651-5

Dana Matthiessen

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Correction: Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture. 更正：多样化还是感官统一？末世文化中围绕感官的争论。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00654-2

Sonsoles Hernandez Barbosa

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Obesogenic vs. fatphobic: an examination of environment in relation to fatness.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00637-3

Tiana Dodson

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Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949-1961.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00632-8

Haiwei Yang, Huili Zhang

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Historicizing the liberal antiracism of Cultural Evolution.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00647-1

Cameron Brinitzer

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Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 2024.

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00650-6

La Ilham Toha

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From the ports to the hinterland. Plague, bacteriology, and politics in Argentina (1899-1940). 从港口到内陆。阿根廷的鼠疫、细菌学和政治（1899-1940 年）。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00648-0

Juan Pablo Zabala, Nicolás Facundo Rojas

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Two scientific perspectives on nerve signal propagation: how incompatible approaches jointly promote progress in explanatory understanding. 神经信号传播的两种科学视角：互不兼容的方法如何共同促进解释性理解的进步。

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History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI: 10.1007/s40656-024-00644-4

Linda Holland, Henk W de Regt, Benjamin Drukarch

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