History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Article	Citations
Identity, politics, and the pandemic: Why is COVID-19 a disaster for feminism(s)?	30
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond	22
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?	19
COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values	18
Immunitarianism: defence and sacrifice in the politics of Covid-19	18
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk	16
The COVID-19 pandemic: a case for epistemic pluralism in public health policy	15
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare	13
Does anybody really know what time it is?	12
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-19	11
Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage	11
COVID-19 heralds a new epistemology of science for the public good	11
The myth of Frederic Clements’s mutualistic organicism, or: on the necessity to distinguish different concepts of organicism	10
Can aging research generate a theory of health?	10
Beyond politics: additional factors underlying skepticism of a COVID-19 vaccine	10
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view	10
What are the COVID-19 models modeling (philosophically speaking)?	10
Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account	9
Mouse avatars of human cancers: the temporality of translation in precision oncology	9
How disinformation kills: philosophical challenges in the post-Covid society	9
Ageing and the goal of evolution	8
Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-19	8
COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation	8
Demented patients and the quandaries of identity: setting the problem, advancing a proposal	8
Flattening the curve is flattening the complexity of covid-19	8

The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context	8
COVID-19, immunoprivilege and structural inequalities	8
Human domestication and the roles of human agency in human evolution	8
The meaning of Freedom after Covid-19	8
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: a visionary in controversy	7
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-19	7
Introduction: microbes, networks, knowledge—disease ecology and emerging infectious diseases in time of COVID-19	7
The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention	6
Imagination and remembrance: what role should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and other epidemics?	6
The molecular vista: current perspectives on molecules and life in the twentieth century	6
The time of one's life: views of aging and age group justice	6
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Software engineering standards for epidemiological models	6
Neither superorganisms nor mere species aggregates: Charles Elton’s sociological analogies and his moderate holism about ecological communities	6
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review	6
Explanatory goals and explanatory means in multilevel selection theory	6
Between hoping to die and longing to live longer	6
Humanising and dehumanising pigs in genomic and transplantation research	6
Seeing the value of experiential knowledge through COVID-19	6
Croizat’s dangerous ideas: practices, prejudices, and politics in contemporary biogeography	6
The history and philosophy of taxonomy as an information science	6
COVID-19: Rethinking the nature of viruses	6
Making sense of nature conservation after the end of nature	5
Organisms as subjects: Jakob von Uexküll and Adolf Portmann on the autonomy of living beings and anthropological difference	5
COVID-19, a critical juncture in China’s wildlife protection?	5
Christian Reiß, Der Axolotl: Ein Labortier im Heimaquarium, 1864–1914, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2020, 299 pp., € 29.90	5
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition	5
The Kantian account of mechanical explanation of natural ends in eighteenth and nineteenth century biology	5
What’s my age again? Age categories as interactive kinds	5
Historical reflection on Taijin-kyōfushō during COVID-19: a global phenomenon of social anxiety?	5
COVID-19 and the selection problem in national cause-of-death statistics	5
On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy	5
Who's afraid of epigenetics? Habits, instincts, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory	5
Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine	5
Small RNA research and the scientific repertoire: a tale about biochemistry and genetics, crops and worms, development and disease	5
Descriptive understanding and prediction in COVID-19 modelling	5
“Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents	5
What’s all the fuss about? The inheritance of acquired traits is compatible with the Central Dogma	5
The ‘Is’ and the ‘Ought’ of the Animal Organism: Hegel’s Account of Biological Normativity	4
Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography	4
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users	4
Ontologically simple theories do not indicate the true nature of complex biological systems: three test cases	4
Ethnobotanical profiles of wild edible plants recorded from Mongolia by Yunatov during 1940–1951	4
Can populations be healthy? Perspectives from Georges Canguilhem and Geoffrey Rose	4
Emergence of scientific understanding in real-time ecological research practice	4
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy	4
The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence	4
Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together	4
Assessing the quality of evidence from epidemiological agent-based models for the COVID-19 pandemic	4

COVID-19 and inequalities: the need for inclusive policy response	3
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation	3
Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?	3
Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-19	3
How can science be well-ordered in times of crisis? Learning from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	3
Rethinking the history of peptic ulcer disease and its relevance for network epistemology	3
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia	3
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy	3
Making the anaesthetised animal into a boundary object: an analysis of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection	3
The art of growing old: environmental manipulation, physiological rhythms, and the advent of Microcebus murinus as a primate model of aging	3
The pre-Darwinian history of the comparative method, 1555–1855	3
Neanderthals as familiar strangers and the human spark: How the ‘golden years’ of Neanderthal research reopen the question of human uniqueness	3
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins	3
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
“I would sooner die than give up”: Huxley and Darwin's deep disagreement	3
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences	3
Technics and signs: anthropogenesis in Vygotsky, Leroi-Gourhan, and Stiegler	2
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”	2
Not only laboratory to clinic: the translational work of William S. C. Copeman in rheumatology	2
Medical toolkit organisms and Covid-19	2
Henry Cowles, The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020	2
Rethinking ageing: introduction	2
Ecological laws for agroecological design: the need for more organized collaboration in producing, evaluating and updating ecological generalizations	2
Practicing virology: making and knowing a mid-twentieth century experiment with Tobacco mosaic virus	2
Figuring out what is happening: the discovery of two electrophysiological phenomena	2
Of elephants and errors: naming and identity in Linnaean taxonomy	2
Before translational medicine: laboratory-clinic relations	2
Kraepelin’s psychiatry in the pragmatic age	2
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability	2
Manipulative evidence and medical interventions: some qualifications	2
Five common misconceptions regarding flattening-the-curve of COVID-19	2
Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19	2
Darwin’s perception of nature and the question of disenchantment: a semantic analysis across the six editions of On the Origin of Species	2
Sexual division and the new mythology: Goethe and Schelling	2
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions	2
Seeing beyond COVID-19: understanding the impact of the pandemic on oncology, and the importance of preparedness	2
Hamster numbers: biopolitics and animal agency in the Dutch fields, circa 1870-present	2
COVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments	2
Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions	2
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”	2
COVID-19 and the reenactment of mass masking in South Korea	2
Ineluctably us: early hominid discoveries, mass media, and the reification of human ancestors	2
The great leveller? COVID-19’s dynamic interaction with social inequalities in the UK	2
Cecilia Heyes, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018, ix + 292 pp., $31.50/£25.95/€28.50	2
Masks, mechanisms and Covid-19: the limitations of randomized trials in pandemic policymaking	2
Anneli Jefferson, Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?, London: Routledge, 2022	1
Post-Darwinian fish classifications: theories and methodologies of Günther, Cope, and Gill	1
Alan C. Love & William C. Wimsatt (eds.), Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 22, Minneapolis/London: University	1
Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics	1
Skin color and phlogiston Immanuel Kant’s racism in context	1
Kant, intoxicated: the aesthetics of drunkenness, between moral duty and “active play”	1
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept	1
The evolution of moral belief: support for the debunker’s causal premise	1
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America	1
Roman Göbel, Gerhard Müller, & Claudia Taszus (eds.), Ernst Haeckel: Ausgewählte Briefwechsel. Band 2: Familienkorrespondenz August 1854–März 1857, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, lvi + 654	1
Michael Tomasello, Becoming human: a theory of ontogeny, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019, xi + 379 pp, $35.00/£28.95/€31.50	1
To lock or not to lock? Mexico case	1
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research	1
The concepts and origins of cell mortality	1
Soviet genetics and the communist party: was it all bad and wrong, or none at all?	1
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises	1
Thomas Heams, Infravies – Le vivant sans frontières, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2019, 192 pp, 20.00 €	1
Medical technologies, time, and the good life	1
A controversy about chance and the origins of life: thermodynamicist Ilya Prigogine replies to molecular biologist Jacques Monod	1
Philia: the biological foundations of Aristotle’s ethics	1
Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr, First in fly. Drosophila research and biological discovery, Cambridge/London: Harvard University Press, 2018, 272 pp., £28.95	1
Neither vitalist nor mechanist, neither dualist nor idealist: Plessner's third way	1
Jan Baedke, Above the Gene, Beyond Biology: Towards a Philosophy of Epigenetics, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018, 313 pages	1
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to COVID-19: a research agenda for the future	1
Non-epistemic values in shaping the parameters for evaluating the effectiveness of candidate vaccines: the case of an Ebola vaccine trial	1
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2020	1
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life	1
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity	1
The ‘good’ of extending fertility: ontology and moral reasoning in a biotemporal regime of reproduction	1
Reproduction versus metamorphosis: Hegel and the evolutionary thinking of his time	1
Reevaluating the grandmother hypothesis	1
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy	1
Justin Garson, What Biological Functions Are and Why They Matter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019	1
Cristian Saborido, Filosofía de la Medicina, Madrid: Tecnos, 2020	1
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies	1

oren harman and michael r. dietrich (eds). Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018, 336 pp.	1
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism	1
Do heritable immune responses extend physiological individuality?	1
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes	1
JN. Pohn rebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics	1
Bert Theunissen, Beauty or Statistics: Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020	1
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information	1
Francesca Michelini & Kristian Köchy (eds.), Jakob von Uexküll and philosophy: life, environments, anthropology, Abingdon: Routledge, 2020	1
“Waking up” the sleeping metaphor of normality in connection to intersex or DSD: a scoping review of medical literature	1
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review	1
From exceptional to common presence: Italian women in twentieth-century life sciences	1
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine	1
Arche-writing and data-production in theory-oriented scientific practice: the case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis	1
Blood and plasma donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: arguments against financial stimulation	1
A box, a trough and marbles: How the Reed-Frost epidemic theory shaped epidemiological reasoning in the 20th century	1
Biological taxon names are descriptive names	1
David Ceccarelli & Giulia Frezza (eds.), Predictability and the unpredictable. Life, evolution and behaviour, Roma: CNR Edizioni, 2018, 288 pp	1
Mirko D. Grmek. Pathological realities. essays on disease, experiments, and history. edited, translated, and with an introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot. foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. New York:	1
Organic form and evolution: the morphological problem in twentieth-century italian biology	1
Jimena Canales, Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020	1
Homeorhesis: envisaging the logic of life trajectories in molecular research on trauma and its effects	1
COVID-19 and the problem of clinical knowledge	1
Richard O. Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us, New York: Doubleday, 2017, 448 pp., $30.00 hardback	1
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality	1
Toward a comparative history of medical genetics as a medical specialty in North America	1
Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism	1
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-19	1