Wilhelm Reich, biologist
Wilhelm Reich's experiments in the 1930s with cutting-edge light microscopy and time-lapse micro-cinematography were considered discredited, but not because of shoddy lab technique, as has been claimed. Scientific opposition to Reich's experiments, James Strick argues, grew out of resistance to his unorthodox sexual theories and Marxist leanings.
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- Full title :Wilhelm Reich, biologist / James E Strick.
Summary
Wilhelm Reich's experiments in the 1930s with cutting-edge light microscopy and time-lapse micro-cinematography were considered discredited, but not because of shoddy lab technique, as has been claimed. Scientific opposition to Reich's experiments, James Strick argues, grew out of resistance to his unorthodox sexual theories and Marxist leanings.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:467 pages : : illustrations, protraits ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674736092, 0674736095
- oclc:ocn994834263
- LC Classification:BF109.R38
- Dewey Decimal:150.19/5092
Table of Contents
[Contents] -- Machine generated contents note: 1. Reich's Background, Origins of His Research Program, and Relevant Context -- 2. Reich's Move toward Laboratory Science -- 3. Reich and du Teil: Control Experiments Begin -- 4. An Independent Scientist: The Basic Theoretical and Methodological Features of Sex-Economic Research -- 5. Reich's Theory of Cancer -- 6. Opposition to the Bion Experiments -- 7. SAPA Bions and Reich's Departure for the United States.
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