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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nils Roll-Hansen is a historian and philosopher of 19th and 20th century biology at University of Oslo. He is the author of four books and many academic articles. His book The Lysenko Effect was praised in Nature. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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- Eugenics and the welfare state : sterilization policy in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland (1998) (184)
- Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century (1994) (164)
- The Lysenko Effect: The Politics of Science (2004) (50)
- The Genotype Theory of Wilhelm Johannsen and its Relation to Plant Breeding and the Study of Evolution (1979) (47)
- The crucial experiment of Wilhelm Johannsen (1989) (46)
- Sources of Wilhelm Johannsen’s Genotype Theory (2009) (44)
- Science, Politics, and the Mass Media: On Biased Communication of Environmental Issues (1994) (41)
- E. S. Russell and J. H. Woodger: The failure of two twentieth-century opponents of mechanistic biology (1984) (40)
- 2 Why the distinction between basic ( theoretical ) and applied ( practical ) research is important in the politics of science (2009) (40)
- A Historical Perspective on the Distinction Between Basic and Applied Science (2017) (34)
- Experimental method and spontaneous generation: the controversy between Pasteur and Pouchet, 1859--64. (1979) (29)
- Commentary: Wilhelm Johannsen and the problem of heredity at the turn of the 19th century. (2014) (29)
- Plant Breeding on the Front: Imperialism, War, and Exploitation (2005) (28)
- A new perspective on Lysenko? (1985) (25)
- The Death of Spontaneous Generation and the Birth of the Gene: Two Case Studies of Relativism (1983) (23)
- The controversy between biometricions and Mendelions: A test case for the sociology of scientific knowledge (1980) (21)
- Critical teleology: Immanuel Kant and Claude Bernard on the limitations of experimental biology (1976) (17)
- The Lysenko effect: undermining the autonomy of science. (2005) (16)
- The application of complementarity to biology: from Niels Bohr to Max Delbruck. (2000) (16)
- Eugenics and the Science of Genetics (2010) (15)
- Geneticists and the Eugenics Movement in Scandinavia (1989) (15)
- The holist tradition in twentieth century genetics. Wilhelm Johannsen's genotype concept (2014) (14)
- Eugenics and the Welfare State: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland (2005) (14)
- Theory and practice: the impact of Mendelism on agriculture. (2000) (13)
- The Progress of Eugenics: Growth of Knowledge and Change in Ideology (1988) (12)
- Eugenics before World War II: The case of Norway. (1980) (11)
- Lessons from the history of science (2011) (11)
- The Practice Criterion and the Rise of Lysenkoism (1989) (9)
- Wishful science: the persistence of T. D. Lysenko's agrobiology in the politics of science. (2008) (8)
- Lamarckism and Lysenkoism Revisited (2011) (7)
- On the philosophical roots of today’s science policy: Any lessons from the “Lysenko affair”? (2015) (6)
- Niels Bohr and Max Delbrück: Balancing Autonomy and Reductionism in Biology (2011) (6)
- Eugenic sterilization: a preliminary comparison of the Scandinavian experience to that of Germany. (1989) (6)
- Studying natural science without nature? Reflections on the realism of so-called laboratory studies (1998) (5)
- LOUIS PASTEUR—A CASE AGAINST REDUCTIONIST HISTORIOGRAPHY*1 (1972) (5)
- Untangling the McClintock myths (2002) (4)
- On the reduction of biology to physical science (1969) (4)
- Eugenics in Scandinavia after 1945: change of values and growth in knowledge. (1999) (4)
- Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation: understanding experimental method (2018) (3)
- Johannsen’s Criticism of the Chromosome Theory (2014) (3)
- Philosophical ideas and scientific practice: A note on the empiricism of T.H. Morgan (1992) (3)
- A problematic social science approach to the study of climate science (2013) (3)
- Eugenic Practice and Genetic Science in Scandinavia and Germany: Some Comments on Peter Weingart's Comparison of Sweden and Germany (2001) (2)
- Pasteur: an underestimated hero of science: an essay review. [Review of: Geison GL. The private science of Louis Pasteur. Princeton University Press, 1995]. (1998) (2)
- The current relevance of Lysenkoism (2013) (2)
- Marxist roots of science studies (2012) (2)
- Organicism and Lysenkoism (2017) (1)
- Some Thoughts on Genetics and Politics. The Historical Misrepresentation of Scandinavian Eugenics and Sterilization (2017) (1)
- A special role for the genotype? Some comments on Keith Baverstock: "The gene: An appraisal". (2022) (1)
- Eugenic Sterilization and the Role of Science—The Scandinavian Case (2007) (1)
- Genetics under stalin: the vavilov affair. (1985) (1)
- Towards a more historical conception of biology (1974) (1)
- Vavilov, Nikolai Ivanovich (2014) (1)
- Revisiting the Pouchet–Pasteur controversy over spontaneous generation: understanding experimental method (2018) (0)
- Empirical Studies or Philosophy? (Reply to Barnes and Collins) (1985) (0)
- Sheila Faith Weiss.The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich. 383 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. $45 (cloth). (2011) (0)
- The Scientist, the Impostor and Stalin: How to Feed the People. Dir. Gulya Mirzoeva. New York: Icarus films, 2017. 54 minutes. Black and white. (2019) (0)
- What are we to learn from the history of eugenics? (2013) (0)
- On the philosophical roots of today’s science policy: Any lessons from the “Lysenko affair”? (2015) (0)
- Loren R. Graham. Science, Philosophy, and Human Behaviour in the Soviet Union . New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. XIV + 565. ISBN 0-231-06442-X. $45.00. (1988) (0)
- Genetics Under Stalin: The Vavilov Affair . Mark Popovsky. Archon (Shoe String), Hamden, Conn., 1984. viii, 216 pp. $19.50. (1985) (0)
- Marxist roots of science studies (2012) (0)
- Science in Sweden. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1739-1989. Tore Frangsmyr, Ed. Science History Publications (Watson), Canton, MA, 1989. viii, 291 pp., illus. $45. (1990) (0)
- The Spell of the North (2011) (0)
- The current relevance of Lysenkoism (2013) (0)
- Book Review:Finns in the Shadow of the "Aryans": Race Theories and Racism Aira Kemilainen (2000) (0)
- What are we to learn from the history of eugenics? (2012) (0)
- What history tells us XXI. Apoptosis and programmed cell death: when biological categories are blurred (2010) (0)
- Genetic alchemy: The social history of the recombinant DNA controversy: by Sheldon Krimsky, The MIT Press, 1982.£17.50 (xiii + 445 pages) ISBN 0 262 11083 0 (1983) (0)
- An asterisk denotes a publication by a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The Editors welcome suggestions for reviews. Abraham, William J. Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006. Pp. xiv+ 198. Paper $20.00, ISBN: 0802829589 (2006) (0)
- Scandinavian Contributions: Science in Sweden . The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1739-1989. Töre Frangsmyr, Ed. Science History Publications (Watson), Canton, MA, 1989. viii, 291 pp., illus. $45. (1990) (0)
- The role of theory in experimental life (1995) (0)
- Jonathan D. Oldfield; Denis J. B. Shaw. The Development of Russian Environmental Thought: Scientific and Geographical Perspectives on the Natural Environment. xi + 196 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibl., index. London/New York: Routledge, 2016. £95 (cloth). (2017) (0)
- MICHAEL RUSE, Monad to man. The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary biology, Harvard University Press, 1996, pp. 628 (ISBN 0-674-582200-9) (1998) (0)
- Richard Weikart.From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. xi + 312 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave, 2004. $59.95 (cloth). (2005) (0)
- Alexander Vucinich. Empire of Knowledge. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1917–1970) . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. x + 484. ISBN 0-520-04871-7. £23.95. (1986) (0)
- A Historical Perspective on the Distinction Between Basic and Applied Science (2017) (0)
- Iris Fry.The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview. xii + 327 pp., figs., bibl., index. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000. $55. (2005) (0)
- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger; Staffan Müller-Wille. The Gene from Genetics to Postgenomics. 147 pp., bibl., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. $25 (paper). ISBN 9780226510002. (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Race Hygiene and National Efficiency: The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer Sheila Faith Weiss (1989) (0)
- Some Remarks on the Distinction between Basic (Theoretical) and Applied (Practical) Science and Its Importance in the Politics of Science (2013) (0)
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