Ontogenetic Basis of Human Anatomy
The Biodynamic Approach to Development from Conception to Adulthood
Written by Erich Blechschmidt, Edited by Brian Freeman
Price: $30.00
North Atlantic Books
This book presents an anatomical overview of the changing form and structure of the human body. Although biomechanical embryology can be traced back to the 19th century, up until recently the most commonly accepted framework for the study of human ontogeny (development of the individual) was molecular biology, which all too...
|
Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Metaphors that Shape Embryos
Written by Donna Haraway, Foreword by Scott Gilbert
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change...
|
Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings
How the Universe Makes Life
Written by Richard Grossinger, Preface by Harold Dowse, Foreword by John Upledger
Price: $24.95
North Atlantic Books
The basis for biology is embryogenesis—a method of organizing the matter responsible for the creation of life. This book brings attention to the gap between science's description of life as random and mechanical, and the depth of human experience. Other sections discuss genetic determinism; embryonic models of healing; the Islamic critique...
|
Embryogenesis
Species, Gender and Identity
Written by Richard Grossinger, Illustrated by Phoebe Gloeckner and Jillian O'Malley
Price: $75.00
North Atlantic Books
Embryogenesis completes an ethnographer's 22-year study of the origins and boundaries of the universe. Echoing Sheldon Nuland's How We Die, Sogyal Rinpoche's Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, and many other sources, this book makes the vital link between science and religion as it discusses the evolution of the species. Touching...
|
