Between the Laboratory and the Museum: Claude Bernard and the Problem of Time

Schmidgen, Henning (2013) Between the Laboratory and the Museum: Claude Bernard and the Problem of Time. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, 35 (1). pp. 33-37. ISSN 0391-9714, 1742-6316

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Abstract

This paper explores the relation between biological and historical time with respect to Claude Bernard's Lectures on the Phenomena of Life Common to Animals and Plants (1878). These lectures mirror Bernard's turn from the experimental physiology of animal organisms to a "general physiology" of elementary organisms, or cells, and discuss the problematic interrelation of science, life, and time. The paper argues that experimental life sciences in Bernard's sense are always also "living sciences," i.e., sciences in dynamic development. The perspectives of this conception are discussed with reference to Hansjorg Rheinberger's historical studies concerning the materiality and semiotics of "experimental systems."

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ; History of physiology; experimental systems; Claude Bernard; Hans-Jorg Rheinberger; time
Subjects: 400 Language > 400 Language, Linguistics
800 Literature > 800 Literature & rhetoric
Divisions: Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK)
Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 30 Apr 2020 05:31
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2020 05:31
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17559

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