Regenerating Japan : organicism, modernism and national destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and human life /
"As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era's most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and populariz...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press
2018.
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| Col·lecció: | CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ;
volume X |
| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctvbd8kpt |
Taula de continguts:
- Introduction : moss animal nation
- The organic state : the imperative of ethical life
- Palingenetic polypersons : evolutionary morphology and the question of organic individuality
- Generative scientism : organicism beyond reform
- World War Zero
- The human-way : nomic instincts and the transformation of humanity
- Nomic crisis
- Decadence and destiny
- Epilogue : evolution and the national body : an unfinished synthesis.