Hydrolysis, oxidation and reduction /
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| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : Wiley, c2002. |
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| Description: | xviii, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Catalysts for fine chemical synthesis ; v. 1 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4761284 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Contributors
- About the Editors
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emergent Properties of Biological Molecules and Cells
- 3. From Nineteenth Century Ideas on Reduction in Physiology to Non-Reductive Explanations in Twentieth-Century Biochemistry
- 4. Pitfalls of Reductionism in Immunology
- 5. Reductionism in Medicine: Social Aspects of Health
- Questions and Discussion
- 6. 'Who's Afraid of Reductionism?' 'I Am!'
- Questions and Discussion
- Round Table Discussion 1. Chair--Alex Rosenberg
- 7. Reductionism in an Historical Science
- Questions and Discussion
- 8. Varieties of Reductionism: Derivation and Gene Selection
- Questions and Discussion
- 9. The Gene: Between Holism and Generalism
- Questions and Discussion
- 10. Genes versus Molecules: How To, and How Not To, Be a Reductionist
- Questions and Discussion
- 11. Limits of Reproduction: A Reductionistic Research Strategy in Evolutionary Biology
- Questions and Discussion
- 12. Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in the Poverty of Genetic Determinism
- Questions and Discussion
- Round Table Discussion 2. Chair--Marc H. V. Van Regenmortel
- 13. The Ethical Imperative of Holism in Medicine
- Questions and Discussion
- 14. Levels of Explanation in Human Behaviour: The Poverty of Evolutionary Psychology
- Questions and Discussion
- 15. Reductionism and Social Policy
- Questions and Discussion
- 16. Reductionism, Complexity and Molecular Medicine: Genetic Chips and the 'Globalization' of the Genome
- Questions and Discussion
- Round Table Discussion 3. Chair--Kenneth F. Schaffner
- Bibliography
- Index
