An epistemology of the concrete : twentieth-century histories of life / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger ; foreword by Tim Lenoir.

Epistemologie des Konkreten. English

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.

xix, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Ludwik Fleck, Edmund Husserl : on the historicity of scientific knowledge -- Gaston Bachelard : the concept of "phenomenotechnique" -- Georges Canguilhem : epistemological history -- Pisum : Carl Correns's experiments on Xenia, 1896-99 -- Eudorina : Max Hartmann's experiments on biological regulation in protozoa, 1914-21 -- Ephestia : Alfred Kähn's experimental design for a developmental physiological -- Genetics, 1924-45 -- Tobacco mosaic virus : virus research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes for Biochemistry and Biology, 1937-45 -- The concept of the gene : molecular biological perspectives -- The liquid scintillation counter : traces of radioactivity -- The concept of information : the writings of François Jacob -- Intersections -- Preparations -- The economy of the scribble.

Includes bibliographical references (p.[289]-319) and index.

Translated from the German.