ABSTRACT

This volume showcases doubt from within the scientific community itself. These sources dwell upon the moments at which ideas became challenged, when facts were revealed to be fiction, and when knowns reverted to unknowns. But the focus is not the ideas and facts themselves, but on the ways in which scientists adjusted themselves to new landscapes of uncertainty in their particular cultural and professional practices.

chapter |14 pages

General Introduction

Experience, Experiment, Expertise

chapter |4 pages

Introduction to Volume IV

Uncertainty

part 1|47 pages

General

chapter 2|25 pages

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation

chapter 3|4 pages

Autobiography

part 3|32 pages

Medicine

chapter 9|11 pages

The Influence of Women in the Profession of Medicine

Address Given at the Opening of the Winter Session of the London School of Medicine for Women

chapter 10|7 pages

Scientific Method in Biology

chapter 11|4 pages

‘The Modern Assistant’

part 4|93 pages

Physiology

chapter 14|16 pages

Mechanism, Life and Personality

An Examination of the Mechanistic Theory of Life and Mind

chapter 15|4 pages

‘Introduction’

chapter 16|27 pages

Human Vivisection

A Statement and an Inquiry

chapter 17|25 pages

The Reality of Human Vivisection

A Review of a Letter by William W. Keen

part 6|12 pages

Electrical Engineering

chapter 22|10 pages

The Electric Arc

part 7|5 pages

Physics (Fluid Mechanics)

chapter 23|3 pages

The Splash of a Drop

part 8|5 pages

Psychoanalysis

chapter 24|3 pages

The Interpretation of Dreams

part 9|29 pages

Spiritualism

chapter 25|8 pages

On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism

Three Essays

chapter 26|16 pages

My Life

A Record of Events and Opinions

part 10|26 pages

Literary Representation

chapter 28|9 pages

The Island of Doctor Moreau

A Possibility

part 11|9 pages

War as Human Experiment