Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Styles of Reasoning: Analysis: Synthesis and Palaetiology
Problematics
A London Community of Life Researchers and other Historiographic Notes
The Argument and Structure
Historians' Questions
1. Analysis Part One
Analysis: Synthesis in France
Philosophic Anatomy in London
Philosophic Radicals and Philosophic Anatomists: Mutually Appreciative Audiences
Analysis: Synthesis, Political Individualism and Spontaneous Order
The Importance of Museums
The Contingent Beginnings of Richard Owen
The Domestication of Analysis: Synthesis: Owen's Reinterpretation of John Hunter
Owen's Rise
Neurophysiology as Analysis: Vivisections
The Reflex Arc, Analysis and Compound Individuality
Lower Animals, Disunity and the Reflex Arc
The Bodily Oeconomy
Compound Individuality and Levels of Organization: Phrenology and Wiganism
Hierarchy and Internal Unity
Cephalization
Centripetal Development
Cephalization and Recapitulation
Exemplars of Cephalization
The Creation and Reception of a New Exemplar
Monsters as Synthesized (Truly Compound) Organisms
4. Regeneration as Reproduction
Exemplars: Recurring Puzzles and Animal-Researcher Pairings
Why did Owen call it Vegetative Repetition?
Parthenogenesis then Metagenesis
The Acceptance of Metagenesis
5. 1837: The Accession of Palaetiology
William Whewell and Palaetiology, 1837
Martin Barry and the Introduction of von Baerian Embryology to Britain, 1837
William B. Carpenter and the Reinterpretation of Zoophytes
Vivaria and Questions of Evidence
Huxley, Palaetiologist
6. Alternative Explanations and New Generations, 1850-1858
Huxley Cultivates London Mentors
Zoöids and Individuality
Private Attacks upon Owen Begin
Public Attacks upon Owen Begin
Reproductive Masses: 'Buds' or 'Pseudova'?
Professionalization as Exclusion
Conclusion
Individual Agency and Styles of Reasoning?
Notes
Works Cited
Index