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Vitalism
Known as:
Vitalistic medicine
, Energy (vitalism)
, Vitalist theory
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Vitalism is a discredited scientific hypothesis that "living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some…
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2016
2016
A-Life and the Uncanny in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
L. Monnet
2016
Corpus ID: 192526516
The first entirely computer-animated, photorealistic feature-length film based on the principles of live-action cinema, Final…
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Review
2012
Review
2012
The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths
P. Wildman
2012
Corpus ID: 55042249
This article explores aspects of the conventional research thesis and identifies one approach - the ‘esoteric thesis’- for…
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2008
2008
The Category of Life, Mechanistic Reduction, and the Uniqueness of Biology
W. Kisner
2008
Corpus ID: 73722837
The conceptual and ontological determinacies belonging to the category of mechanism, determinacies that began to occupy centre…
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2007
2007
Anthropology and the Rise of Psychiatry from the ‘Encyclopédie’ to the Alienists
P. Huneman
2007
Corpus ID: 51801185
Physiologists in the eighteenth century often made use of the phrase économie animale or “animal economy.” This came to denote a…
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2005
2005
Versuche über die Wirkungsweise der Erbanlagen
A. Kühn
Die Naturwissenschaften
2005
Corpus ID: 30436013
In den ersten 3 ° Jahren der Vererbungsforschung sind die Gesetze der Erbfaktorenverteilung grunds~tzlich aufgeklArt worden…
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1994
1994
«Shoddy», anti-semitism and the civil war
G. Bunker
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J. Appel
1994
Corpus ID: 164007934
Lorsque la Guerre Civile eclate aux Etats-Unis, les fruits de l'antisemitisme sont murs. L'ethnocentrisme n'est pas la seule…
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1991
1991
Der Bruch mit der humanitären Tradition: die Biologisierung der Ethik bei Ernst Haeckel und anderen Darwinisten seiner Zeit
P. Weindling
Medicina e historia
1991
Corpus ID: 18940974
1980
1980
Gimson and the Barnsleys: Wonderful Furniture of a Commonplace Kind
Mary Greensted
1980
Corpus ID: 106530061
After training as architects and being inspired by William Morris, Gimson and the Barnsleys gradually became involved with…
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1977
1977
Cell Contact Phenomena and Their Implication in Cell Communication
L. Weiss
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J. P. Harlos
1977
Corpus ID: 83081447
Before junctions can be formed, parts of apposing cell surfaces must make contact with each other; interactions occurring before…
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1960
1960
The Growth of Scientific Physiology Physiological Method and the Mechanist-Vitalist Controversy, Illustrated by the Problems of Respiration and Animal Heat
G. J. Goodfield
1960
Corpus ID: 82680040