History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Planer R. J. & Sterelny K., From Signal to Symbol: the Evolution of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021, xx + 276 pp29
Embodied cognition and the imaging of bio-pathologies: the question of experiential primacy in detecting diagnostic phenomena28
Under the spell of SARS-CoV-2: A closer look at the sociopolitical dynamics22
Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine20
David Sepkoski, Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 202018
Kōzai Toyoko . Shutō to iu "eisei": Kinsei Nihon ni okeru yobō sesshu no rekishi [The Road to Immunization: A History of Smallpox in Early Modern15
Romanticizing evolutionary biology14
Ben Bradley, Darwin’s psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 202013
“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century America11
Pavlovian theory and the development of traditional Chinese medicine, 1949–196111
Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity11
Evolution within the body: the rise and fall of somatic Darwinism in the late nineteenth century11
Sara Green, Animal models of human disease, 2024, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press10
Finding value-ladenness in evolutionary psychology: Examining Nelson’s arguments10
Between the genotype and the phenotype lies the microbiome: symbiosis and the making of ‘postgenomic’ knowledge9
Who is the biological patient? A new gradational and dynamic model for one health medicine8
Animal research unbound: The messiness of the moral and the ethnographer’s dilemma8
Of rats and children: plague, malaria, and the early history of disease reservoirs (1898–1930)8
What’s in a name? From “fluctuation fit” to “conformational selection”: rediscovery of a concept7
Malin Ah-King, The female turn. How evolutionary science shifted perceptions about females, Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 20227
Croizat’s form-making, RNA networks, and biogeography6
Minding the gap: discovering the phenomenon of chemical transmission in the nervous system6
Theistic evolution and evolutionary ethics: Henry Fairfield Osborn and Huxley’s legacy6
Open science, data sharing and solidarity: who benefits?6
How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?6
Seeing clearly through COVID-19: current and future questions for the history and philosophy of the life sciences6
Laboratory animal strain mobilities: handling with care for animal sentience and biosecurity6
Matthew’s (1915) climate and evolution, the “New York School of Biogeography”, and the rise and fall of “Holarcticism”6
Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem’s biological philosophy6
Diversification or sensory unification? Controversies around the senses in fin de siècle culture6
The holobiont self: understanding immunity in context5
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview5
Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread, New Haven: Yale University Press, 20185
Crystallizing techniques: sample preparations, technical knowledge, and the characterization of blood crystals, 1840–19095
Aging 4.0? Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare5
The legal relevance of a minor patient’s wish to die: a temporality-related exploration of end-of-life decisions in pediatric care5
Mathias Grote, Membranes to molecular machines: active matter and the remaking of life, The University of Chicago Press, 20195
Correction to: John N. Prebble, searching for a mechanism. A history of cell bioenergetics5
Race realism goes both ways5
The machine-organism relation revisited5
Can science help discover the nature of well-being?5
Parachutes, randomized controlled trials, and all-cause mortality4
The foucauldian approach to conservation: pitfalls and genuine promises4
Correction to: “Organismic” positions in early German-speaking ecology and its (almost) forgotten dissidents4
Natural selection according to Darwin: cause or effect?4
Attention: a descriptive taxonomy4
Pierre M. Durand, The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death, Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 20214
The red-beard evolutionary explanation of human sociality4
“Batesonian Mendelism” and “Pearsonian biometry”: shedding new light on the controversy between William Bateson and Karl Pearson4
Question-driven stepwise experimental discoveries in biochemistry: two case studies4
The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic4
Genuine versus bogus scientific controversies: the case of statins4
The discovery of archaea: from observed anomaly to consequential restructuring of the phylogenetic tree3
When remediating one artifact results in another: control, confounders, and correction3
Bernd Rosslenbroich, Properties of life. Toward a theory of organismic biology. Vienna series in theoretical biology, 2023, The MIT Press, 326 Pages, ISBN 9780262546201 (Paperback)3
Ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic: age-based discrimination in triage decisions and beyond3
Overlooked contributions of Ayurveda literature to the history of physiology of digestion and metabolism3
Empirical assumptions behind the violation of expectation experiments in human and non-human animals3
A strategy to what end? “The strategy of model building in population biology” in its programmatic context3
A work in progress: William Bateson’s vibratory theory of repetition of parts3
Constraint-based reasoning in cell biology: on the explanatory role of context3
Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability3
The genetic informational network: how DNA conveys semantic information2
Introduction: biomedical knowledge in a time of COVID-192
Normative implications of postgenomic deterministic narratives: the case study of epigenetic harm2
Science, misinformation and digital technology during the Covid-19 pandemic2
Phenotype-first hypotheses, spandrels and early metazoan evolution2
Mechanisms of macromolecular reactions2
Epidemiological models and COVID-19: a comparative view2
Medical technologies, time, and the good life2
How is who: evidence as clues for action in participatory sustainability science and public health research2
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: science and epistemic humility should go together2
Locating hygienic medicine within the intellectual history of hygiene: cases of E. W. Lane and T. R. Allinson2
Correction to: From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life2
Evaluating the validity of animal models of mental disorder: from modeling syndromes to modeling endophenotypes2
The hatching of consciousness2
Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 19682
Resilience and the shift of paradigm in ecology: a new name for an old concept or a different explanatory tool?2
The life sciences and the history of analytic philosophy2
Historiographical approaches to biogeography: a critical review2
Correction to: Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies2
Christoph Adami, The evolution of biological information: how evolution creates complexity, from viruses to brains. 2024. Princeton: Princeton University Press.1
Seeking the first phylogenetic method–Edvard A. Vainio (1853–1929) and his troubled endeavour towards a natural lichen classification in the late nineteenth century Finland1
Temporal sociomedical approaches to intersex* bodies1
History, philosophy, and science education: reflections on genetics 20 years after the human genome project1
Change in the graphics of journal articles in the life sciences field: analysis of figures and tables in the journal “Cell”1
Ross L. Jones, Anatomists of Empire: race, evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World, North Melbourne: australian Scholarly Publishing, 20201
Kraepelin’s psychiatry in the pragmatic age1
The emergence of temporality in attitudes towards cryo-fertility: a case study comparing German and Israeli social egg freezing users1
Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic1
How political philosophies can help to discuss and differentiate theories in community ecology1
On diversity of human-nature relationships in environmental sciences and its implications for the management of ecological crisis1
Challenges of anticipation of future decisions in dementia and dementia research1
Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-191
Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia1
The DSM-5 introduction of the Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder as a new mental disorder: a philosophical review1
Controlling systems and controlling legacies: Barbara McClintock’s 1961 conversation with two bacterial geneticists1
Tamar Novick, Milk and honey: technologies of plenty in the making of a Holy Land, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 20231
From technique to normativity: the influence of Kant on Georges Canguilhem’s philosophy of life1
kerry lynn macintosh, Enhanced beings: human germline modification and the law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20181
Jimena Canales, Bedeviled: a shadow history of demons in science, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 20201
Race and indigeneity in human microbiome science: microbiomisation and the historiality of otherness1
The essentialism of early modern psychiatric nosology1
Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution1
A box, a trough and marbles: How the Reed-Frost epidemic theory shaped epidemiological reasoning in the 20th century1
Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution1
COVID-19 and the problem of clinical knowledge1
Kersten T. Hall, Insulin—the crooked timber: a history from thick brown muck to wall street gold, Oxford: Oxford university press, 20211
Correction: Heredity as a problem. On Claude Bernard’s failed attempts at resolution1
Correction to: The road from evidence to policies and the erosion of the standards of democratic scrutiny in the COVID-19 pandemic1
Obesogenic vs. fatphobic: an examination of environment in relation to fatness1
After the trans brain: a critique of the neurobiological accounts of embodied trans* identities1
Metaphors we Lie by: our ‘War’ against COVID-191
A. S. Barwich, Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 20201
From aesthetics to anthropology: ideal beauty in Camper’s (1722–1789) theory of race1
Timeless spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–19631
Jacob Stegenga, Care & Cure. An introduction to philosophy of medicine, Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 2018, 288 pp.1
Death in advance or people living with dementia? Extending the philosophical discourse of Schweda and Jongsma through the persistence of self and other strengths1
Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene Social Contract. New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. xi + 200 pp.1
Von Baer, the intensification of uniqueness, and historical explanation1
Arnon Levy & Peter Godfrey-Smith (eds.), The Scientific Imagination: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press, 20201
A hapless mathematical contribution to biology1
Kostas Kampourakis & Tobias Uller (eds.), Philosophy of Science for Biologists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20201
On evidence fiascos and judgments in COVID-19 policy1
The evolution of ACEs: From coping behaviors to epigenetics as explanatory frameworks for the biology of adverse childhood experiences1
Philipp Fischer, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Christoph Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Hannes Rickli, Natures of Data: A Discussion Between Biology, History and Philosophy of Science and Ar1
Claude Bernard’s non reception of Darwinism1
Arche-writing and data-production in theory-oriented scientific practice: the case of free-viewing as experimental system to test the temporal correlation hypothesis1
Life’s organization between matter and form: Neo-Aristotelian approaches and biosemiotics1
Maya J. Goldenberg, Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 20211
Correction to: Darwin’s perception of nature and the question of disenchantment: a semantic analysis across the six editions of On the Origin of Species1
Georg Striedter, Model Systems in Biology: History, Philosophy, and Practical Concerns, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 20221
The concepts and origins of cell mortality1
Jeffry L. Ramsey, Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science, New York: Routledge, 20241
Michel Morange: The Black Box of Biology: A History of the Molecular Revolution, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 20201
Cristian Saborido, Filosofía de la Medicina, Madrid: Tecnos, 20201
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