Publications

Publications:

Books:

Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells (Harvard University Press, 2003; paperback 2005)

Transforming Traditions in American Developmental Biology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991)

100 Years Exploring Life. An Autobiography of the Marine Biological Laboratory (Jones and Bartlett Press, 1989)

Edited Volumes:

With Manfred Laubichler, From Embryology to Evo-Devo: a History of Evolutionary Development (MIT Press, Dibner Institute series, in press)

With Marie Glitz and Garland Allen, Embryology at The Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, A History of Development, Reproduction, and Genetics (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

With Richard Creath, Biology and Epistemology, (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

With Michael Ruse, Biology and theFoundations of Ethics, (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

With Gregg Mitman and Adele E. Clarke, Crossing the Borderlands: Biology at Chicago , special issue of Perspectives on Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)

With Keith Benson and Ronald Rainger, The Expansion of American Biology (Rutgers University Press, 1991)

With Ronald Rainger and Keith Benson, The American Development of Biology (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988); republished in paperback (Rutgers University Press, 1991)

Defining Biology. Lectures From the 1890s, (Harvard University Press, 1986), with introduction

With James Collins and John Beatty, Journal of the History of Biology , special issue, “Reflections on Ecology and Evolutionary Biology” (1986) v. 19 #2

L. J. Blyakher's History of Embryology in Russia (Smithsonian Institution, 1982)

Articles:

With Manfred Laubichler, “Evolution and Society,” In Companion to Evolution (Harvard University Press)

“To Evo-Devo through Cells, Embryos, and Morphogenesis,” in Laubichler and Maienschein, editors, From Embryology to Evo-Devo: a History of Evolutionary Development (MIT Press, in press)

“Laboratories in Science Education: Understanding the History and Nature of Science,” report prepared for the National Research Council Committee on High School Science Labs posted to: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/HS_Labs_Resources.html (2004)

“Embryology, Evolution, and Ernst [Mayr],” Ludus Vitalis (2004) 12: 237-245

“The Path to Experimental Embryology,” Treccani's History of Science. Istituto Della Enciclopedia Italiana (forthcoming 2004).

“Confidence Building: In What, for Whom, and Why?,” Jurimetrics (2003) 44: 153-160.

With Manfred Laubichler, “Ontogeny, Anatomy, and the Problem of Homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American Tradition of Cell Lineage Studies,” Theory in Biosciences (2003) 122: 194-203. (translated into Russian by I. Y. Popov, for U. Hossfeld, et al., editors, Evolutionary Morphology: From Carl Gegenbaur to Present (Elsevier, 2004)

“Biology and Society: Educating for the Future,” with Allison Whitmer and Ronald Rutowski, Journal for the Art of Teaching (2002) 9: 22-36.

“Innocent Reflections on Science and Technology Policy.” Technology in Society (2002) 24: 133-143.

“Advocating the History for Science,” in Garland Allen and Roy MacLeod, editors, Science, History, and Social Activism (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002), pp. 23-36.

“What's in a Name: Embryos, Clones, and Stem Cells,” American Journal of Bioethics (2002) 2:11-18; on-line “target” article (2001), with responses

“On Cloning: Advocating History of Biology in the Public Interest,” Journal of the History of Biology (2001) 34: 423-432

“Why Study History for Science?,” Biology and Philosophy (2000) 15: 339-348

“Competing Epistemologies and Developmental Biology,” in Biology and Epistemology, Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein, editors, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 122-137

“Diversity in American Biology,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (1999) 21: 35-52

“Libbie Hyman at the University of Chicago,” American Museum Novitate (1999): 25-32

With James Collins and Daniel Strouse, “Biology and Law: Challenges of Adjudicating Competing Claims in a Democracy,” report for National Science Foundation, 1997. Revised version in Jurimetrics (1998): 151-181.

“The One and the Many: Epistemological Reflections on the Modern Human Origins Debate” in G. A.Clark and C. W. Willermet, eds, Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research, (Aldine de Gruyter Publishers, 1997), pp. 413-422

“Changing Conceptions of Organization and Induction,” American Zoologist (1997) 37: 220-228

“Pattern and Process in Early Studies of Arizona's San Francisco Peaks,” Bioscience (1994): 479-485

“It's a Long Way from Amphioxus” Anton Dohrn and Late Nineteenth Century Debates about Vertebrate Origins” History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences (1994) 16: 465-478

“Cutting Edges Cut Both Ways,” Biology and Philosophy (1994) 9: 1-24

“Why Collaborate?,” Journal of the History of Biology (1993) 26: 167-183.

“The Gene,” in Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth A. Lloyd, editors, Keywords in Evolutionary Biology (Harvard University Press, 1992), pp. 122-127.

“Epistemic Styles in German and American Embryology,” Science and Context (1991) 4:407-427.

“The Origins of Entwicklungsmechanik,” in Scott Gilbert, editor, A Conceptual History of Modern Developmental Biology (Plenum Press, 1991), pp. 43-61

“T. H. Morgan's Regeneration, Epigenesis, and (W)holism,” in Charles Dinsmore, editor, History of Regeneration Research (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 133-149

“From Presentation to Representation in E. B. Wilson's The Cell ” Biology and Philosophy (1991) 6: 227-254

“Cytology in 1924: Expansion and Collaboration,” in Keith Benson, et al., editors, The American Expansion of Biology (Rutgers University Press, 1991), pp. 23-51.

“Cell Theory and Development,” in G. N. Cantor, et al., eds., Companion to the History of Modern Science (Routledge, 1990), pp. 357-373

“T. H. Morgan as Invertebrate Embryologist,” International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development (1989) 15: 1-6

“Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology?,” in Rainger, Benson, and Maienschein, editors, The American Development of Biology (1988), pp. 151-182

“Why Do Research at the Seashore?,” American Zoologist (1988) 28: 15-25

“Arguments for Experimentation in Biology,” PSA 86 (1987): 180-195

“H. N. Martin and W. K. Brooks: Exemplars for American Biology?” American Zoologist (1987) 27: 773-783

“Heredity/Development in the United States, Circa 1900,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (January 1987) 9: 77-91

“Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology,” in Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940 , ed. Gerald L. Geison (Bethesda, Maryland: American Physiological Society, 1987), pp. 177-207

“Preformation or New Formation -- or Neither or Both?” in A History of Embryology , T. J. Horder, et al., editors, (Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 73-108

“History of Biology,” Osiris , special volume on “Historical Writing on American Science” (2nd Series, 1985) 1: 147-162

“Agassiz, Hyatt, Whitman and the Birth of the M.B.L.,” Biological Bulletin , (June 1985) 168 Suppl: 26-34

“First Impressions: American Students At Naples,” Biological Bulletin , (June 1985) 168 Suppl: 187-191

“Early Struggles Over the M.B.L.'s Mission and Money,” Biological Bulletin (June 1985) 168 Suppl: 192-196

“What Determines Sex?: A Study of Converging Approaches,” Isis (1984) 75: 457-480

“Experimental Biology in Transition: Harrison's Embryology, 1895-1910,” Studies in History of Biology (1983) 6: 107-127

“Don't Stop in Carlisle: Reactions to Philadelphia's 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic,” John and Mary's Journal (1982): 3-16

“Shifting Assumptions in American Biology: Embryology, 1890-1910,” Journal of the History of Biology (Spring 1981) 14: 89-113

“Morphology and Modern Biology: Were the Americans in Revolt?” with Ronald Rainger and Keith Benson, Journal of History of Biology (Spring 1981) 14: 83-87

“Cell Lineage, Ancestral Reminiscence, and the Biogenetic Law,” Journal of the History of Biology (1978) 11: 129-158

Essays, Editorials, and Reference Articles:

With Manfred Laubichler, “Development,” New Dictionary of History of Ideas (Charles Scribners Sons, 2004)

“Human Embryos and the Language of Scientific Research,” American Journal of Bioethics (2003) 4: 6-7.

“Understanding Science and its Implications ,” Kansas Law Review (2003) 51: 303-306.

“Thomas Hunt Morgan,” Encyclopedia of Evolution (2002)

“Staffing Science Policy-Making,” Science (2000) 290:1501 (read into Congressional Record, Senate of the 106th Congress, December 15, 2000)

“Old Wine in New Bottles,” Nature (2000) 407:21

“Marine Biological Laboratory” and “Edmund Beecher Wilson” in The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2000): pp. 1241-1245 and 2146-2151

“Who's in Charge of the Gene Genie?,” The World and I (2000): 180-187

“Toward Neuroetho-evo-devo-ecology: one View of the Mountain,” International Society for Neuro-ethology Newsletter (November 1999)

With Keith Benson, Introduction, The Establishment of Science in America , Rutgers University Press (1999), pp. 1-6

With Undergraduate Students, “Commentary: To the Future -- Arguments for Scientific Literacy,” Science Communication (1999) 21: 75-87.

“The Value of Practicing Practical History,” Endeavour (1999) 23: 3-4

Science, Political Literacy and the 105th Congress,” AWIS Newsletter (1999): 26-27

“Edwin Grant Conklin,” (3:330-332); “Ross Granville Harrison,” (10: 219-221); “Clarence Edwin McClung,” (14:883-884); “Henry von Peters Wilson” (23:582-583); and “Charles Otis Whitman” (23:273-275), American National Biography (1999)

With Undergraduate Students, “Scientific Literacy,” Science (1998): 917

“History and Philosophy of Science in Action,” History of Science Society Newsletter #4 (1998): 3

“Program Essay/AAAS 150th Anniversary Meeting, 1998

“Introduction to the MBL's Second Century: Jacques Loeb,” in Robert Barlow, et al., editors, Centennial Lectures (Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 1-4

“Oscar Riddle,” and “Nettie Stevens,” Dictionary of Scientific Biography Supplement II (1990): 736-738 and 867-869

“Neurobiology a Century Ago at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole,” Trends in Neurosciences (1990) 13: 399-401

“Evaluating Science Through History,” Columbia History of Science Newsletter (1988): 2-4

“Alfred Huettner,” Collecting Net (August 1987): 4

“Pigeons, Visions, and An Ideal Station,” M.B.L. Science (Summer 1985): 11-12

“Resources at the Marine Biological Laboratory,” Mendel Newsletter (1984) 24: 4

“Crucial Experiment,” “Development,” “Developmental Mechanics,” “Encapsulation,” “Entelechy,” “Epigenesis/Preformation,” “Germ Layer Theory,” “Induction,” “Mosaic Theory of Development,” “Metamorphosis,” “Organizer,” “Ovism/Animaculism,” “Recombination,” Oxford Dictionary of the History of Science (1981)

“C.O. Whitman at the M.B.L.,” Mendel Newsletter (1976) 13:1-3