Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / Rom Harré.
Harré, Rom.
2009
QL55 .H37 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / Rom Harré.
Author Harré, Rom.
ISBN 9780199238569
0199238561
Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number QL55 .H37 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 507.2
Summary From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in Montgolfier's balloon to test the air over Paris, to the famous clone Dolly the Sheep and the Darwinian finches of the Galapagos, Pavlov's Dogs and Schrodinger's Cat offers a look at the use of plants and animals--including humans--in scientific experiments. Rom Harre provides a fresh perspective on research, setting aside moral reflection to simply examine the history of how and why living creatures have been used for the purposes of discovery. From Gregor Mendel's use of pea plants to explore heredity, to Barry Marshall's used of himself as the experimental animal in his helicobacter experiments (he survived) and even the use of an imaginary cat in Schrodinger's famous thought experiment, the reader encounters a new perspective on scientific work.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Instruments and apparatus : tools for experimenting
Detecting : hyenas, frogs, zebra fish, and assorted farm animals
Measuring : the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen, and pollen grains
Extending an established domain : dogs, horses, frogs, and trees
Exploring a new domain : a bald mouse, two chimpanzees, and some people
Testing hypotheses : more dogs, monkeys, and ticks
Modelling individuals : yet more dogs, a few mice, and one human stomach
Modelling worlds : voles, peas, fruit flies, finches, and deep oceanic worms
Practising deception : spring wheat and midwife toads
Inventing novel beings : an imaginary cat and virtual life forms.

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