History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept27
Between hoping to die and longing to live longer25
Blood and plasma donors during the COVID-19 pandemic: arguments against financial stimulation20
Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma18
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena18
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp18
Robert E. Kohler, Inside Science: Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019, 264 pp., $35.0015
Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 400 pp., $40.00 (paper)/$120.00 14
Under the spell of SARS-CoV-2: A closer look at the sociopolitical dynamics14
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences13
Who's afraid of epigenetics? Habits, instincts, and Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory12
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context12
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy11
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 202211
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge11
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press11
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity11
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system10
Assessing the quality of evidence from epidemiological agent-based models for the COVID-19 pandemic10
Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine10
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography10
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?9
The legacy of the fieldwork of E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman in Mexico (1892–1906) for research on poorly known mammals9
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?9
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”9
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare8
The meaning of Freedom after Covid-198
Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments8
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 20208
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century8
Kōzai Toyoko . Shutō to iu "eisei": Kinsei Nihon ni okeru yobō sesshu no rekishi [The Road to Immunization: A History of Smallpox in Early Modern8
Is Wilson’s religion Durkheim’s, or Hobbes’s Leviathan?7
Aging biomarkers and the measurement of health and risk7
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–19097
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 20207
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–19616
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy6
Correction to: John N. Prebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics6
How urban ‘informality’ can inform response to COVID-19: a research agenda for the future6
Ateleological propagation in Goethe’s Metamorphosis of plants6
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture6
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America6
The machine-organism relation revisited6
Medical technologies, time, and the good life6
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)6
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine6
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 20196
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 20186
Darwin’s “horrid” doubt, in context6
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality5
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic5
Covid-19 and the power of rules5
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review5
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy5
When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction5
Covid-19 and the need for more history and philosophy of RNA5
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins5
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability5
Can aging research generate a theory of health?5
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality5
“Un-Promethean” science and the future of humanity: Heidegger’s warning4
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness4
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information4
Coronavirus biopolitics: the paradox of France’s Foucauldian heritage4
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 20214
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson4
Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 19684
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care4
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-194
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson4
Medical toolkit organisms and Covid-193
The hatching of consciousness3
The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy3
The genealogy of dwarfs: reproduction and romantic mythology in Goethe’s New Melusine3
Loneliness and negative effects on mental health as trade-offs of the policy response to COVID-193
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together3
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?3
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view3
COVID-19: Rethinking the nature of viruses3
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree3
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism3
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution3
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes3
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises3
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