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Cycles and circulation: a theme in the history of biology and medicine

History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences · 2021 · 11 citations

We invite systematic consideration of the metaphors of cycles and circulation as a long-term theme in the history of the life and environmental sciences and medicine. Ubiquitous in ancient religious and philosophical traditions, especially in representing the seasons and the motions of celestial bodies, circles once symbolized perfection. Over the centuries cyclic images in western medicine, natural philosophy, natural history and eventually biology gained independence from cosmology and theolog…

Environmental Studies

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020 · 8 citations

At Environmental Studies at the University of Oslo, students began their semester by taking a weeklong hike over the scenic Hardangervidda mountain plateau. It was designed to take the students away from the capitalist and industrial setting of the city and deep into the periphery of a picturesque nature. Empowered by the mountains they could enter the valleys of industrialism and shallow ecological thinking with a do-gooding gaze of knowing what’s right from wrong. The institution was the intel…

Marilyn Fischer. <i>Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics.”</i> 263 pp., notes, bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. $45 (cloth); ISBN 9780226631325. E-book available.

Isis · 2021-03-01 · 1 citations

<i> The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics and the Human in the 1970s </i>. By Larry D. BusbeaMinneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. xxvi + 286 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Cloth $120.00, paper $30.00.

Environmental History · 2020-08-10 · 1 citations

The Deep Ecologists

Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2020-05-11 · 1 citations

In 1971 Norwegian ecophilosophers Sigmund Kvaløy, Arne Næss, and Nils Faarlund traveled to the periphery, to the faraway mountains of Nepal. It was a transformative experience for them. In the lives of the Sherpa, they saw an alternative environmentally friendly way of living. Upon their return to Norway they wrote about Sherpa life as an Oriental harmony juxtaposed with the harsh Occidental values of their own Western culture. This demarcation between Oriental ecological wisdom and the Occident…