Tools And The Organism

Author : Colin Webster
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828786
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools and the Organism written by Colin Webster and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations. Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the application of different technologies to the human body. In Tools and the Organism, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these tools were crucial to broader theoretical shifts. Notions changed about what type of object a body is, what substances constitute its essential nature, and how its parts interact. By following these changes and taking the question of technology into the heart of Greek and Roman medicine, Webster reveals how the body was first conceptualized as an “organism”—a functional object whose inner parts were tools, or organa, that each completed certain vital tasks. He also shows how different medical tools created different bodies. Webster’s approach provides both an overarching survey of the ways that technologies impacted notions of corporeality and corporeal behaviors and, at the same time, stays attentive to the specific material details of ancient tools and how they informed assumptions about somatic structures, substances, and inner processes. For example, by turning to developments in water-delivery technologies and pneumatic tools, we see how these changing material realities altered theories of the vascular system and respiration across Classical antiquity. Tools and the Organism makes the compelling case for why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories, from the Hippocratics to Galen, should pay close attention to the question of technology.

Author : Adele E. Clarke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400863139
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Right Tools for the Job written by Adele E. Clarke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines scientific practice through studies of research tools in an array of twentieth-century life sciences. The contributors draw upon and extend the multidisciplinary perspectives in current science studies to understand the processes through which scientific researchers constructed the right--and, in some cases, the wrong--tools for the job. The articles portray the crafting or accessing of specific materials, techniques, instruments, models, funds, and work arrangements involved in doing scientific work. They demonstrate the historical and local contingencies of scientific problem construction and solving by highlighting the articulation between the tools and jobs. Indeed, the very "rightness" of the tools is contingently constructed, maintained, lost, and refashioned. The cases examined include evolutionary biology laboratory systems (James R. Griesemer), the plasmid prep procedure in molecular biology (Kathleen Jordan and Michael Lynch), models in the human ecology of African pastoralists (Peter Taylor), the micromanometer in metabolic studies (Frederic L. Holmes), genetics research and the role played by Planaria (Gregg Mitman and Anne Fausto-Sterling) and by corn (Barbara A. Kimmelman), quantitative data in field biology (Yrj Haila), taxidermy in natural history (Susan Leigh Star), technical standardization in bacteriology (Patricia Peck Gossell), and the discipline of immunology as the tool for stabilizing conceptual definitions in the field (Peter Keating, Alberto Cambrosio, and Michael Mackenzie). Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Corinne A. Michels
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471899198
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Techniques for Biological Research written by Corinne A. Michels and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular Genetic Analysis is an advanced textbook to teach the theory and practice of molecular genetic analysis to senior undergraduates and graduates studying genetics, molecular biology and cell biology. This book uses a case study approach, with the yeast Saccharomyces as the model genetic organism, to explain the theory and practice of molecular genetic analysis. It provides enough information so readers will be able to apply the approach to their own research project.

Author : Umaiyal Munusamy
Publisher : Delve Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781773610580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tools and Techniques in Biology written by Umaiyal Munusamy and published by Delve Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We regularly refer to items used in gardens as gardening tools, those used in a kitchen as utensils and those used in laboratories as apparatus. This is because tools that are used in a specific field or activity have different designations. A tool is defined as a device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a function. We can usually classify a tool based on its function such as cutting and edge tools, moving tools, tools that enact chemical changes, perception tools, shaping tools, fastening tools, information and data management tools and simple machine tools. In addition, we also use to call certain tools as instrument, implement, machine and devices.What is equipment? Equipment is a set of tools used to achieve a goal. Therefore, these are the best answered differentiation between tools and equipment. According to Oxford dictionary, equipment is defined as solid things that are needed for a particular purpose or activity. Equipment can be presented as a set of tools, a number of tools or a collection of tools. A slight difference is that equipment also contains guards that we use for our safety.

Author : Katalin Gruiz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317697448
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management written by Katalin Gruiz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume of the five-volume book series “Engineering Tools for Environmental Risk Management”. The book series deals with the following topics: • Environmental deterioration and pollution, management of environmental problems • Environmental toxicology – a tool for managing chemical substances and contaminated environment • Assessment and monitoring tools, risk assessment • Risk reduction measures and technologies • Case studies for demonstration of the application of engineering tools The authors aim to describe interactions and options in risk management by providing a broad scientific overview of the environment, its human uses and the associated local, regional and global environmental problems; interpreting the holistic approach used in solving environmental protection issues; striking a balance between nature’s needs and engineering capabilities; understanding interactions between regulation, management and engineering; obtaining information about novel technologies and innovative engineering tools. This third volume provides an overview on the basic principles, concepts, practices and tools of environmental monitoring and contaminated site assessment. The volume focuses on those engineering tools that enable integrated site assessment and decision making and ensure an efficient control of the environment. Some topics supporting sustainable land use and efficient environmental management are listed below: • Efficient management and regulation of contaminated land and the environment; • Early warning and environmental monitoring; • Assessment of contaminated land: the best practices; • Environmental sampling; • Risk characterization and contaminated matrix assessment; • Integrated application of physical, chemical, biological, ecological and (eco) toxicological characterization methods; • Direct toxicity assessment (DTA) and decision making; • Online analyzers, electrodes and biosensors for assessment and monitoring of waters.; • In situ and real-time measurement tools for soil and contaminated sites; • Rapid on-site methods and contaminant and toxicity assessment kits; • Engineering tools from omics technologies, microsensors to heavy machinery; • Dynamic characterization of subsurface soil and groundwater using membrane interface probes, optical and X-ray fl uorescence and ELCAD wastewater characterization; • Geochemical modeling: methods and applications; • Environmental assessment using cyclodextrins. This book series focuses on the state of knowledge about the environment and its conscious and structured application in environmental engineering, management and decision making.

Author : R. Tallis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349276626
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Explicit Animal written by R. Tallis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes attempts to "biologize" consciousness by explaining its origin in evolutionary terms and identifying mental phenomena with brain processes, to "computerize" it by identifying mind with the supposed computational activity of the brain, and to eliminate it by denying the reality of qualia.

Author : Christopher Baber
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420024203
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognition and Tool Use written by Christopher Baber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-07-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and explain differences in human and animal tool use from the perspective of cognitive science. Our understanding needs to be grounded upon research into how people use tools, which draws upon many disciplines, from ergonomics to anthropology to cognitive science to neuropsychology. Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools presents a single coherent account of human tool use as a complex psychomotor activity. It explains how people use tools and how this activity can succeed or fail, then describes the design and development of usable tools. This book considers contemporary tool use in domains such as surgery, and considers future developments in human-computer interfaces, such as haptic virtual reality and tangible user interfaces. No other single text brings together the research from the different disciplines, ranging from archaeology and anthropology to psychology and ergonomics, which contribute to this topic. Graduate students, professionals, and researchers will find this guide to be invaluable.

Author : Aftab Ahmad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981166305X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The CRISPR/Cas Tool Kit for Genome Editing written by Aftab Ahmad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses CRISPR/Cas- one of the most powerful tools available to scientists for genome editing. CRISPR/Cas is not only a genome editing tool, but researchers have also engineered it for gene regulation, genome imaging, base editing and epigenome regulations. This book describes the entire toolkit for CRISPR/Cas. The opening section gives an introduction to the technique and compares it with other genome editing tools. Further section gives a historical perspective of the tool, along with its detailed classification. The next chapters describe bioinformatic tools in CRISPR/Cas, and delivery methods for CRISPR/Cas. The book also discusses about the applications of CRISPR/Cas beyond genome editing and use of CRISPR for rewriting genetic codes. The book dedicates a section to the use of CRISPR in plants. The book culminates with a chapter on the current status, challenges and shortcomings of the CRISPR/Cas genome editing tool. The book would be highly interesting to students and researchers in molecular biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, food science, agriculture and plant sciences.

Author : Rajiv Tyagi
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788183564649
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Genetics written by Rajiv Tyagi and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Phillip C. Badger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788172719
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Biology: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, U.S. Senate written by Phillip C. Badger and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: