Better prepared than synthesized: Adolf Butenandt, Schering Ag and the transformation of sex steroids into drugs (1930-1946) [0.03%]
有备无患：阿道夫·布特恩当、舍林公司与性激素向药物的转化(1930-1946)
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
This paper follows the trajectory of sex steroids in 1930s Germany as a way to investigate the system of research which characterized the development of these drugs. Analyzing the changing relationship between the pharmaceutical company Sch...
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Research integrity and rights of indigenous peoples: appropriating Foucault's critique of knowledge/power [0.03%]
土著人民的研究诚信与权利：吸收福柯的知识/权力批判
Norman K Swazo
Norman K Swazo
In this paper I appropriate the philosophical critique of Michel Foucault as it applies to the engagement of Western science and indigenous peoples in the context of biomedical research. The science of population genetics, specifically as p...
P D Magnus
P D Magnus
Debates about the underdetermination of theory by data often turn on specific examples. Cases invoked often enough become familiar, even well worn. Since Helen Longino's discussion of the case, the connection between prenatal hormone levels...
Ideas about heredity, genetics, and 'medical genetics' in Britain, 1900-1982 [0.03%]
英国的遗传、体质遗传及医学遗传观念（1900～1982）
William Leeming
William Leeming
The aim of this paper is to understand how evolving ideas about heredity and genetics influenced new medical interests and practices and, eventually, the formation of 'medical genetics' as a medical specialism in Britain. I begin the paper ...
Integrating research and development: the emergence of rational drug design in the pharmaceutical industry [0.03%]
整合科研与生产：医药行业中理性药物设计的兴起
Matthias Adam
Matthias Adam
Rational drug design is a method for developing new pharmaceuticals that typically involves the elucidation of fundamental physiological mechanisms. It thus combines the quest for a scientific understanding of natural phenomena with the des...
Kant goes fishing: Kant and the right to property in environmental resources [0.03%]
康德去钓鱼——论环境资源中的财产权
Angela Breitenbach
Angela Breitenbach
We can observe a connection between some serious environmental problems caused by the overexploitation of environmental resources and the particular conceptions of property rights that are claimed to hold with regard to these resources. In ...
Early Mendelism and the subversion of taxonomy: epistemological obstacles as institutions [0.03%]
早期孟德尔主义与分类学的颠覆：认识论障碍作为制度机构
Staffan Müller-Wille
Staffan Müller-Wille
This paper presents and discusses a series of hybridization experiments carried out by Nils Herman Nilsson-Ehle between 1900 and 1907 at a plant breeding station in Svalöf, Sweden. Since the late 1880s, the Svalöf station had been renowne...
Maureen A O&#x;Malley,Yan Boucher
Maureen A O&#x;Malley
Thomas Kuhn had little to say about scientific change in biological science, and biologists are ambivalent about how applicable his framework is for their disciplines. We apply Kuhn's account of paradigm change to evolutionary microbiology,...
Hempelian and Kuhnian approaches in the philosophy of medicine: the Semmelweis case [0.03%]
医学哲学中的 Hempelian 和 Kuhnian 方法：Semmelweis 个案研究
Donald Gillies
Donald Gillies
Semmelweis's investigations of puerperal fever are some of the most interesting in the history of medicine. This paper considers analysis of the Semmelweis case. It argues that this analysis is inadequate and needs to be supplemented by som...