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On the utility of a mechanistic approach to physiology part 1: Descriptive vs. mechanistic biology /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of descriptive physiology -- Systems biology -- The biota expansion -- Downward causation vs. cell-cell signaling -- Holism vs. Reductionism: philosophical views about nature -- Molecular changes mediating evolution -- Cell communication as mechanism of novelty -- From phylogeny-ontogeny to homeostasis & repair -- Homeostasis as the mechanism for evolution -- Explicate/Implicate order.…”
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On the utility of a mechanistic approach to physiology part 1: Descriptive vs. mechanistic biology /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of descriptive physiology -- Systems biology -- The biota expansion -- Downward causation vs. cell-cell signaling -- Holism vs. Reductionism: philosophical views about nature -- Molecular changes mediating evolution -- Cell communication as mechanism of novelty -- From phylogeny-ontogeny to homeostasis & repair -- Homeostasis as the mechanism for evolution -- Explicate/Implicate order.…”
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Development practitioners and social process artists of the invisible / by Kaplan, Allan

Table of Contents: “…Byond reductionism -- Emergence -- Life's resources -- Intuition : seeing holistically -- Indications for practice -- Revisiting the whole -- Freedom and constraint -- Balancing heaven and earth -- The creative round -- On becoming -- Dancing with shadows -- Paradoxes of power -- The pattern of reversal -- The narrative thread -- Stories from the field -- Metamorphosis -- Guidance -- Rites of passage -- Consolidating change -- Discerning -- Co-creating -- Emptying -- Awakening.…”
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X-ray contrast agent technology : a revolutionary history / by Haën, Christoph de

Table of Contents: “…The Failure of One-Dimensional ReductionismTechnical Knowledge from Interference of Different Knowledge Cultures; Interference as Communication and Individuation of Knowledge; The Emergence of a Technological Vision; Synchronization and Interference; The Functions of the Technological Vision; Technology Espousal and Resistance; Technology-Shaping Phase; History; Perfecting Ionic Uro-Angiographic Contrast Agents; The Controversial Prehistory of Nonionic Contrast Agents; Nonionic Contrast Agents; The Dynamics of Technology Shaping; The Failure of One-Dimensional Reductionism…”
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Deciphering neurodegeneration models and methods /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Deciphering Neurodegeneration: Models and Methods -- The challenge of neurodegeneration -- Huge diversity in cell types -- Nature versus nurture -- Reductionism versus systems biology -- Cellular models -- Yeast -- Primary cells -- Cell lines -- Stem cells -- Model organisms -- Caenorhabditis elegans -- Drosophila melanogaster -- Zebrafish -- Danio rerio -- Rodents -- Molecular biology approaches -- Knock out and knock in -- Genomic editing -- RNAi -- Overexpression -- Gene expression -- rtPCR -- Microarrays -- RNAseq -- Protein analysis -- Immunoblot -- ELISA -- Mass spec and proteomics -- Microscopy -- Immunocytochemistry -- Live cell imaging -- Electrophysiology.…”
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Deciphering neurodegeneration models and methods /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Deciphering Neurodegeneration: Models and Methods -- The challenge of neurodegeneration -- Huge diversity in cell types -- Nature versus nurture -- Reductionism versus systems biology -- Cellular models -- Yeast -- Primary cells -- Cell lines -- Stem cells -- Model organisms -- Caenorhabditis elegans -- Drosophila melanogaster -- Zebrafish -- Danio rerio -- Rodents -- Molecular biology approaches -- Knock out and knock in -- Genomic editing -- RNAi -- Overexpression -- Gene expression -- rtPCR -- Microarrays -- RNAseq -- Protein analysis -- Immunoblot -- ELISA -- Mass spec and proteomics -- Microscopy -- Immunocytochemistry -- Live cell imaging -- Electrophysiology.…”
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Deciphering neurodegeneration models and methods /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Deciphering Neurodegeneration: Models and Methods -- The challenge of neurodegeneration -- Huge diversity in cell types -- Nature versus nurture -- Reductionism versus systems biology -- Cellular models -- Yeast -- Primary cells -- Cell lines -- Stem cells -- Model organisms -- Caenorhabditis elegans -- Drosophila melanogaster -- Zebrafish -- Danio rerio -- Rodents -- Molecular biology approaches -- Knock out and knock in -- Genomic editing -- RNAi -- Overexpression -- Gene expression -- rtPCR -- Microarrays -- RNAseq -- Protein analysis -- Immunoblot -- ELISA -- Mass spec and proteomics -- Microscopy -- Immunocytochemistry -- Live cell imaging -- Electrophysiology.…”
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Nutritionism : the science and politics of dietary advice / by Scrinis, Gyorgy

Table of Contents: “…A clash of nutritional ideologies -- The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body -- The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania -- The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines -- The macronutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco -- The era of functional nutritionism : functional nutrients, superfoods, and optimal dietary patterns -- Functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism.…”
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Faith and reason historical analysis and perspectives for the present / by Sabetta, Antonio, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Kierkegaard -- Stressing reciprocity and circularity -- Crisis of reason and of the relationship reason-truth -- Post-modernity as the name of contemporary times. a brief analysis -- Going beyond the reductionism of post-modern reason -- Faith and reason: a necessary encounter, if both are "loyal" to themselves.…”
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Critical neuroscience a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience /

Table of Contents: “…Cheon -- Re-socializing psychiatry : critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism / Laurence J. Kirmayer and Ian Gold -- Are mental illnesses diseases of the brain? …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. Mythos and Ethos -- Kinship, place, and story types -- Matrimonial alliance in Biblical narrative -- Withdrawn-woman narratives -- Central marriage narratives -- Redemption narratives -- Mythos of patriarchal succession -- Threats to lineage continuity -- Violations of patriarchal authority -- Validations of the lineage -- Justice in the resolution of conflict V. …”
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The Elusive Covenant : A Structural-Semiotic Reading of Genesis / by Prewitt, Terry J. (Terry James), 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Structural hermeneutics -- Rhetorical structures and cultural themes -- Structural patterns in Genesis 1-14 -- Genesis 1 and 14 -- Genesis 2 and 13 -- Genesis 3 and 12 -- Adam and Abraham -- Genesis 4 and 11 -- Genesis 5 and 10 -- Genesis 6 and 9 -- Genesis 7 and 8 -- Adam, Noah, and Abram -- Toward a unified Genesis structure -- Themal analysis -- Holism and reductionism as hermeneutic principles -- IV. Mythos and Ethos -- Kinship, place, and story types -- Matrimonial alliance in Biblical narrative -- Withdrawn-woman narratives -- Central marriage narratives -- Redemption narratives -- Mythos of patriarchal succession -- Threats to lineage continuity -- Violations of patriarchal authority -- Validations of the lineage -- Justice in the resolution of conflict V. …”
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Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science / by Gay, Volney P. (Volney Patrick), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Rhine -- Cargo cults and the ethics of science -- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein -- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams -- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing -- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations -- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings -- Cultural artifacts and reductionism -- Learning about the self: new horizons -- Seeing with the brain -- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen -- Does high art convey knowledge? …”
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Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism by Morgan, Kevin, 1961-

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FROM ATOMS TO HIGGS BOSONS : voyages in quasi spacetime.

Table of Contents: “…The Reductionist Vision of Physics; 1.1 Reductionism; 1.2 Our View of the World; 1.3 Democritus' Atoms; 1.4 Properties of Atoms in Early Physics; 1.5 The Descent into the Quark Model; 1.6 Contemporary Catalogue of Physical Things; 1.7 Have We Reached the Bottom?…”
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