Controlling Life: Jacques Loeb and the Engineering Ideal in Biology by Philip J. Pauly (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey)
The biologist Jaques Loeb (1859-1924) helped to shape the practice of modern biological research through his radical emphasis on reductionist experimentation. This scientific biography traces Loeb's career, and places his experiments and the controversies they generated in their intellectual and institutional contexts.