Evelleen Richards

Gebundenes Buch

Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain

Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of Evolutionary Theory and Culture

Beschreibung

Collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory.

Autor

Evelleen Richards is Honorary Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney. She has published widely on the social analysis of contemporary scientific and medical controversies, with particular reference to the sociology of clinical trials and on the contextual history of evolutionary biology. Her most recent book, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection (2017), won the 2018 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, awarded biennially by the History of Science Society for the "best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781138607712
• ISBN-10: 1138607711
• Artikelnr.: 69945724