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UNINA9910455277003321 |
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Correia Clara Pinto |
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Titolo |
The ovary of Eve [[electronic resource] ] : egg and sperm and preformation / / Clara Pinto-Correia |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
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9786611223915 |
1-281-22391-3 |
0-226-66950-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (424 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Embryology - History |
Reproduction - Research - History |
Science - Europe - History - 17th century |
Science - Europe - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-376) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATI0NS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1. All About Eve -- 2. All About A dam -- 3. "One Does Not See the Wind" -- 4. Hopeful Monsters -- 5. Frogs with Boxer Shorts -- 6. The H Word -- 7. The Music of the Spheres -- 8. Magical Numbers -- Epilogue. The Fat Lady Will Not Sing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The Ovary of Eve is a rich and often hilarious account of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century efforts to understand conception. In these early years of the Scientific Revolution, the most intelligent men and women of the day struggled to come to terms with the origins of new life, and one theory-preformation-sparked an intensely heated debate that continued for over a hundred years. Clara Pinto-Correia traces the history of this much maligned theory through the cultural capitals of Europe. "The most wonderfully eye-opening, or imagination-opening book, as amusing as it is instructive."-Mary Warnock, London Observer "[A] fascinating and often humorous study of a reproductive theory that flourished from the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century."-Nina |
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C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education "More than just a good story, The Ovary of Eve is an object lesson about the history of science: Don't trust it. . . . Pinto-Correia says she wants to tell the story of history's losers. In doing so, she makes defeat sound more appealing than victory."-Emily Eakin, Nation. "A sparkling history of preformation as it once affected every facet of European culture."-Robert Taylor, Boston Globe |
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UNINA9910965148903321 |
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Living with the Genie : essays on technology and the quest for human mastery / / edited by Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, Christina Desser |
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Washington, : Island Press, c2003 |
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9781610910927 |
1610910923 |
9781417543878 |
1417543876 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LightmanAlan P. <1948-> |
SarewitzDaniel R |
DesserChristina |
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Technology - Social aspects |
Technological innovations - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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About Island Press; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Ch 1: Literary Devices; Ch 2: The Origin od the Genie; Ch 3: Promise and Peril; Ch 4: Small Is Powerful; Ch 5: Your Breath Is Your Worst Enemy; Ch 6: Changing Conceptions; Ch 7: Technology and Death; Ch 8: Confined to Your Legs; Ch 9: Progress and Violence; Ch 10: Science and Happiness; Ch 11: What Kinds of Science Should Be Done?; Ch 12: The Humpty Dumpty Problem; Ch 13: Who Owns Your Dinner?; Ch 14: Blowback in Genetic Engineering; Ch 15: Only Connect; Ch 16: The |
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World is Too Much With Me; Acknowledgments; Notes |
Chapter 2 & 3Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; About the Authors; Index; IslandPress Board of Directors 2003 |
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At a time when scientific and technological breakthroughs keep our eyes focused on the latest software upgrades or the newest cell-phone wizardry, a group of today's most innovative thinkers are looking beyond the horizon to explore both the promise and the peril of our technological future. Human ingenuity has granted us a world of unprecedented personal power -- enabling us to communicate instantaneously with anyone anywhere on the globe, to transport ourselves in both real and virtual worlds to distant places with ease, to fill our bellies with engineered commodities once available to only a privileged elite. Through our technologies, we have sought to free ourselves from the shackles of nature and become its master. Yet science and technology continually transform our experience and society in ways that often seem to be beyond our control. Today, different areas of research and innovation are advancing synergistically, multiplying the rate and magnitude of technological and societal change, with consequences that no one can predict. Living with the Genie explores the origins, nature, and meaning of such change, and our capacity to govern it. As the power of technology continues to accelerate, who, this book asks, will be the master of whom? In Living with the Genie, leading writers and thinkers come together to confront this question from many perspectives, including: Richard Powers's whimsical investigation of the limits of artificial intelligence; Philip Kitcher's confrontation of the moral implications of science; Richard Rhodes's exploration of the role of technology in reducing violence; Shiv Visvanathan's analysis of technology's genocidal potential; Lori Andrews's insights into the quest for human genetic enhancement; Alan Lightman's reflections on how technology changes the experience of our humanness. These and ten other provocative essays open the door to a new dialogue on how, in the quest for human mastery, technology may be changing what it means to be human, in ways we scarcely comprehend. |
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