Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Leech Biology and Behaviour: Anatomy, physiology, and behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerLeech Biology and Behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198573777
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Leech Biology and Behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Leech Biology and Behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198576235
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Leech Biology and Behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198573777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Leech Biology and Behaviour: Feeding biology, ecology, and systematics
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Sawyer, a well-known leech specialist, surveys the most recent research on this biologically and medically important group of animals. Useful to neurobiologists, molecular biologists, zoologists, and ecologists, these volumes include coverage of the leech's increasingly important role in neurobiological and neurophysiological studies.
Leech Biology and Behaviour
Author: Roy T. SawyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198576235
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Leech
Author: Robert G. W. KirkPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230680
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Armed with razor-sharp teeth and capable of drinking many times its volume of blood, the leech is an unlikely cure for ill health. Yet that is exactly the role this worm-like parasite has played in both Western and Eastern medicine throughout history. In this book, Robert G. W. Kirk and Neil Pemberton explore how the leech surfaces in radically different spheres. The ancients used them in humeral medicine to bring the four humors of the body—blood, phlegm, and black and yellow bile—back into balance. Today, leeches are used in plastic and reconstructive surgery to help reattach severed limbs and remove pools of blood before it kills tissue. Leeches have also been used in a nineteenth-century meteorological barometer and a twentieth-century biomedical tool that helped win a Nobel Prize. Kirk and Pemberton also reveal the dark side of leeches as they are portrayed in fiction, film, and popular culture. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to a video game player’s nemesis, the leech is used to represent the fears of science run amok. Leech shines new light on one of humanity’s most enduring and unlikely companions.
The Behavior and Physiology of the Leech, Placobdella Parasitica, as They Relate to the Basking Habit of Turtles
Author: Colleen DriscollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leeches
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 11/2006
Author: Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3938616857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) refl ects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late addition to a series of German societies of science and medicine that began with the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften«, founded in 1910 by Leipzig University's Karl Sudhoff (1853-1938), who wrote: »We want to establish a ,German' society in order to gather German-speaking historians together in our special disciplines so that they form the core of an international society«. Yet Sudhoff, at this time of burgeoning academic internationalism, was »quite willing« to accommodate the wishes of a number of founding members and »drop the word German in the title of the Society and have it merge with an international society«. The founding and naming of the Society at that time derived from a specific set of historical circumstances, and the same was true some 80 years later when in 1991, in the wake of German reunification, the »Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie« was founded. From the start, the Society has been committed to bringing studies in the history and philosophy of biology to a wide audience, using for this purpose its Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie. Parallel to the Jahrbuch, the Verhandlungen zur Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie has become the by now traditional medium for the publication of papers delivered at the Society`s annual meetings. In 2005 the Jahrbuch was renamed Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, reflecting the Society's internationalist aspirations in addressing comparative biology as a subject of historical and philosophical studies.