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03668aam a2200493 i 4500 001 C5096B026FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231021010103 008 211008t20222022qucac b 001 0deng 020 $a 0228010535 020 $a 9780228010531 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDX $d NLM $d NLC $d IAO $d GYG $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a QP21 $b .A53 2022 082 04 $a 571.109 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Anctil, Michel, $d 1945- $e author. $4 aut 245 10 $a Animal as machine : $b the quest to understand how animals work and adapt / $c Michel Anctil. 264 1 $a Montreal ; $b McGill-Queen's University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xviii, 323 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-320) and index. 505 00 $g Epilogue. $g Chronology -- $t Learning How Chemicals Rule Animal Moods -- $t The Uncertain Beginnings -- $t Building Sound Foundations -- $t The Turning Point -- $t American Schools of Comparative Physiology -- $t The Belgian School and the Rise of Comparative Biochemistry -- $t The Canadian Way: Fish Physiology and Biochemistry -- $t A Showcase of Animals Living on the Edge -- $t Learning How Animal Brains Work -- $t Learning How Chemicals Rule Animal Moods -- $g Epilogue. 520 $a "Through the ages natural historians have puzzled over how animals work, wavering between a vitalist belief in a soul animating bodily functions and a mechanistic outlook in which animal body parts are seen as pieces of organic machinery. Animal as Machine explores the life, work, and ideas of scientists who, branding themselves as physiologists, subscribed to mechanistic concepts to explain how animals acquire and process food, breathe, circulate their blood, and sense their environment. As medical physiology thrived in the nineteenth century, zoologists struggled to forge their own distinctive physiology predicated on understanding animal functions in a context of environmental adaptation and evolutionary forces. Physiological schools with distinct emphases that shaped their outlook sprang up around the world. Dividing their time between fieldwork in marine stations and laboratory experimentation, animal physiologists stood in awe of the diversity and ingenuity of the functional strategies by which animals survived. Animal as Machine tells a remarkable and insightful story of the larger-than-life personalities and gripping historical episodes that marked the emergence and blossoming of animal physiology."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Physiology $x History. 650 0 $a Physiologists $x History. 650 0 $a Physiology, Comparative. 650 12 $a Animals 650 12 $a Physiology $x history 650 22 $a Physiological Phenomena 650 22 $a Physiology, Comparative $x history 650 6 $a Physiologie $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Physiologistes $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Physiologie compareÌe. 650 7 $a Physiologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063173 650 7 $a Physiology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063177 650 7 $a Physiology, Comparative. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01063206 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Informational works. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Anctil, Michel, 1945- $t Animal as machine. $d Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 $z 9780228012214 $z 9780228012214 $w (OCoLC)1287097884 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021031834.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C5096B026FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search