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Jane Maienschein

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According to Wikipedia, Jane Maienschein is an American professor and director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. Education Maienschein was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later transferred to Yale University in 1969 where she was a member of Manuscript Society. In 1972, she graduated with honors in History, the Arts, and Letters. She then attended Indiana University to conduct her Ph.D work. Her mentor, Dr. Frederick Churchill, was interested in historical embryological research. Maienschein was awarded a Fellowship at the Smithsonian, to study the history of microscopy. The National Science Foundation provided funding for her dissertation. Maienschein became involved with the Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, to research historical embryology, morphogenesis and cellular differentiation. Maienschein researched the history and philosophy of developmental biology as well as issues surrounding stem cell research and regenerative medicine.

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Growth of biological thought (1994) (890)
From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution (2007) (182)
The American Development of Biology (1988) (134)
The Ethos and Ethics of Translational Research (2008) (101)
Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915 (1991) (69)
The origins of Entwicklungsmechanik. (1991) (66)
9. Mendel in America: Theory and Practice, 1900-1919 (1988) (64)
The expansion of American biology (1991) (60)
What Determines Sex? A Study of Converging Approaches, 1880-1916 (1984) (56)
Whose view of life? : embryos, cloning, and stem cells (2003) (53)
Cultures of natural history (1997) (50)
The State of Nature: Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950 (1992) (43)
Shifting assumptions in American biology: Embryology, 1890–1910 (1981) (38)
2. From Museum Research to Laboratory Research: The Transformation of Natural History into Academic Biology (1988) (38)
Regenerative medicine's historical roots in regeneration, transplantation, and translation. (2011) (36)
Biology and Epistemology (1999) (36)
Commentary: To the Future— Arguments for Scientific Literacy (1999) (35)
Form and Function in Developmental Evolution (2010) (34)
From presentation to representation in E. B. Wilson'sThe Cell (1991) (33)
Epistemic Styles in German and American Embryology (1991) (32)
Stem Cell Research: A Target Article Collection Part II - What's in a Name: Embryos, Clones, and Stem Cells (2002) (31)
Computational Perspectives in the History of Science: To the Memory of Peter Damerow (2013) (31)
Biology and the Foundation of Ethics: Notes on Contributors (1999) (30)
Heredity/development in the United States, circa 1900. (1987) (30)
4. Summer Resort and Scientific Discipline: Woods Hole and the Structure of American Biology, 1882–1925 (1988) (29)
5. Whitman at Chicago: Establishing a Chicago Style of Biology? (1988) (28)
AGASSIZ, HYATT, WHITMAN, AND THE BIRTH OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY (1985) (26)
8. Organism and Environment: Frederic Clements's Vision of a Unified Physiological Ecology (1988) (23)
3. Organizing Biology: The American Society of Naturalists and its "Affiliated Societies," 1883–1923 (1988) (23)
Gametes and Spores (1983) (22)
How Can History of Science Matter to Scientists? (2008) (21)
The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation (2018) (21)
Embryos under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life (2014) (20)
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics (1999) (20)
Shaping biology: The national science foundation and American biological research, 1945-1975 (2002) (18)
``Why Study History for Science?'' (2000) (17)
Whose View of Life? (2003) (15)
Systems Bioethics and Stem Cell Biology (2006) (15)
Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s (1986) (14)
'It's a long way from Amphioxus' Anton Dohrn and late nineteeth century debates about vertebrate origins (1994) (14)
1. Museums on Campus: A Tradition of Inquiry and Teaching (1988) (13)
The endothelium in history (2007) (13)
BODY WORLDS as Education and Humanism (2007) (13)
8. Constraints and Opportunities for Construction (2014) (11)
Data Management and Data Sharing in Science and Technology Studies (2018) (10)
Changing Conceptions of Organization and Induction (1997) (10)
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: AMERICAN BIOLOGISTS AT NAPLES (1985) (10)
Arguments for Experimentation in Biology (1986) (10)
Remember me (1994) (10)
The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy (2007) (10)
Embryos, cells, genes, and organisms : reflections on the history of evolutionary developmental biology (2007) (10)
Ontogeny, anatomy, and the problem of homology: Carl Gegenbaur and the American tradition of cell lineage studies (2003) (10)
Scientific Literacy (1998) (10)
Controlling Life: From Jacques Loeb to Regenerative Medicine (2009) (9)
What Difference Does History of Science Make, Anyway? (2008) (9)
6. Charles Otis Whitman, Wallace Craig, and the Biological Study of Animal Behavior in the United States, 1898–1925 (1988) (9)
What is an ‘embryo’ and how do we know? (2007) (9)
100 years exploring life, 1888-1988 : the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole / Jane Maienschein ; selection and arrangement of photographs by Ruth Davis. (1989) (9)
7. Vertebrate Paleontology as Biology: Henry Fairfield Osborn and the American Museum of Natural History (1988) (9)
Regenerative Medicine in Historical Context (2009) (9)
History of American Marine Laboratories: Why Do Research At the Seashore? (1988) (9)
From Natural Law to Evolutionary Ethics in Enlightenment French Natural History (1999) (8)
Introduction: Between ecology and evolutionary biology (1986) (8)
Computational History of Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities (2019) (8)
From Research to Technology (2007) (7)
History of embryology in Russia from the middle of the eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century (1982) (7)
Physiology, Biology, and the Advent of Physiological Morphology (1987) (7)
Staffing Science Policy-Making (2000) (7)
Introduction: Were American morphologists in Revolt? (1981) (7)
“Organization” as Setting Boundaries of Individual Development (2011) (6)
Why Study Biology by the Sea? (2020) (6)
Cutting edges cut both ways (1994) (6)
The Promise and Politics of Stem Cell Research. (2007) (6)
On Cloning: Advocating History of Biology in the Public Interest (2001) (6)
The value of practicing practical history (1999) (6)
Why collaborate? (1993) (6)
Pattern and process in early studies of Arizona's San Francisco Peaks (1994) (6)
Understanding regeneration at different scales (2019) (6)
100 Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988 (1989) (5)
Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959) and perspectives on regeneration. (2010) (5)
The Moral Status of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (1999) (5)
Cells, Development, and Evolution: Teeth Studies at the Intersection of Fields (2017) (5)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought: Developmental Evolution (2013) (5)
The Embryo Project: An Integrated Approach to History, Practices, and Social Contexts of Embryo Research (2010) (5)
Garland Allen, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Development (2016) (5)
Discovery and Explanation in Biology and Medicine. Science and Its Conceptual Foundations.Kenneth F. Schaffner (1994) (5)
Rethinking Sarton's Institute for History of Science and Civilization—Virtually (2009) (4)
Evolutionary Biology: Exploring development and evolution on the tangled bank (2014) (4)
EARLY STRUGGLES AT THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY OVER MISSION AND MONEY (1985) (4)
Old wine in new bottles (2000) (4)
H. N. Martin and W. K. Brooks: Exemplars for American Biology? (1987) (4)
Human Embryos and the Language of Scientific Research (2004) (4)
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Ethos and Ethics of Translational Research” (2008) (3)
Competing Views of Embryos for the Twenty-First Century: Textbooks and Society (2013) (3)
Embryos, microscopes, and society. (2016) (3)
Biology and the Foundation of Ethics: Index (1999) (3)
Diversity in American biology, 1900-1940. (1999) (3)
Neurobiology a century ago at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (1990) (3)
JHB as a Collaborative Effort (2017) (2)
Politics in Biology (2010) (2)
Scatological Asklepios: The Use of Excrement in Graeco-Roman Healthcare (2019) (2)
Changing Conceptions of Human Nature (2018) (2)
Understanding Embryos in a Changing and Complex World: A Case of Philosophers and Historians Engaging Society (2014) (2)
The Cambridge History of Science. Volume 6. The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences ‐ edited by Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone (2010) (2)
Eloge: Philip J. Pauly, 3 September 1950–2 April 2008 (2009) (1)
Book Review:Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson (1999) (1)
Evolutionary biology: Paean to a founder of heredity (2015) (1)
Book Review:Darwinism and Social Darwinism in Imperial Germany: The Contribution of the Cell Biologist Oscar Hertwig (1849-1922) Paul Julian Weindling (1995) (1)
Struggles of a biologist: black apollo of science. (1983) (1)
T. H. morgan as invertebrate embryologist (1989) (1)
Focus: Computational history and philosophy of science (2019) (1)
Time, Impact, and the Need for Digital History and Philosophy of Science (2016) (1)
Explaining Regeneration: Cells and Limbs as Complex Living Systems, Learning From History (2021) (1)
Part II-What's in a Name: Embryos, Clones, and Stem Cells (2002) (1)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1986) (1)
Chapter 2. Changing ideas about cells as complex systems (2019) (1)
Visions of Cell Biology: Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology" (2018) (1)
Summer books (2015) (1)
The Marine Biological Laboratory Embryology Course (2012) (1)
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA (review) (2008) (1)
Introduction (2019) (1)
How We Live and Why We Die: The Secret Lives of Cells (review) (2010) (1)
Thinking about Data Management Planning (2016) (1)
Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu (eds): Towards a theory of development (2014) (1)
Life under the microscope (2006) (1)
Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself. By Jamie A. Davies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $29.95. xi + 299 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-967353-7. 2014. (2016) (1)
What Is Regeneration? (2022) (1)
Joe Sornberger, Dreams and Due Diligence: Till and McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy (2013) (1)
Innocent reflections on science and technology policy (2002) (1)
Essay Review Metaphors and other slippery creatures (2019) (0)
Introduction (1993) (0)
The Rise of Experimental Biology: An Illustrated History.ByPeter L Lutz; Foreword by, Bob Boutilier.Totowa (New Jersey): Humana Press.$59.50. xiii + 200 p + 8 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–89603–835–1. 2002. (2003) (0)
Book Review:A History of the Study of Human Growth J. M. Tanner (1982) (0)
A History of Microtechnique. Brian Bracegirdle (1981) (0)
In Memory of Paul Farber (1944–2021), Third Editor of the Journal of the History of Biology (2021) (0)
Updating cowdry : ceneral cytology in the 20th and 21st century (2018) (0)
Evelyn Fox Keller.The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. vii + 107 pp., illus., table, index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2010. $18.95 (paper). (2011) (0)
Arizona State University Embryo Project Photograph Collections (2012) (0)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1988) (0)
4. Inherited, Evolved, and Computed Embryos (2014) (0)
Thesis: The Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal and the Development of Bioethics in South Korea [1] (2021) (0)
Competing Views of Embryos for the Twenty-First Century: Textbooks and Society (2011) (0)
Growth and form (1993) (0)
Book Review:Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist Ernst Mayr (1989) (0)
Understanding Embryos in a Changing and Complex World: A Case of Philosophers and Historians Engaging Society (2013) (0)
Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (2007) (0)
Life’s Blueprint: The Science and Art of Embryo Creation. By Benny Shilo. New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University Press. $35.00. xvi + 174 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-300-19663-4. 2014. (2015) (0)
Is there anything new about astrobiology and society (2016) (0)
Advocating the History of Science (2001) (0)
History and Philosophy of Science at Work: Making Regenerative Medicine Research Better (2011) (0)
The MBL History Project Closes Out a Fourth Season (2020) (0)
Cell Lineages in Ontogeny and Phylogeny from 1900 (2018) (0)
McLaren, Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. viii + 235. ISBN 978-0-226-56069-4. $55.00 (hardback). (2012) (0)
Human Dimensions of Biology (2012) (0)
Thesis: Surprising Religious and Republican Roots to Planned Parenthood: An Arizona Case Study (2021) (0)
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology (review) (2009) (0)
Sarah Franklin.Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy. x + 253 pp., illus., bibl., index. Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2007. $22.95 (paper). (2007) (0)
Studies at the Intersection of Fields (2018) (0)
Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines.ByEvelyn Fox Keller.Cambridge (Massachusetts): Harvard University Press.$29.95. xii + 388 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–674–00746–8. 2002. (2003) (0)
Thesis: Surviving Cervical Cancer: A History of Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment [1] (2021) (0)
AGASSIZ, HYATT, WHITMAN, AND THE BIRTH OF (2016) (0)
The Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (2012) (0)
Book Review (1989) (0)
Jane Maienschein (1950- ) [1] (2018) (0)
Modifying germlines – or not? (2004) (0)
Synthetic: How Life Got Made (2017) (0)
The Historiography of Embryology and Developmental Biology (2021) (0)
Thesis: Leo Kanner and the Psychobiology of Autism (2020) (0)
1. Recurring Questions, Seeing and Believing (2014) (0)
Biology and the Foundation of Ethics: Introduction (1999) (0)
Book Review:Philosophy, Evolution and Human Nature. Florian von Schilcher, Neil Tennant (1985) (0)
Thesis: The ‘History and Nature of Science’ in the Era of Standards-Based Reform [1] (2021) (0)
Catherine Waldby. The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs (2019) (0)
Thesis: A Contextual Understanding of the Definition of Science in South Korea [1] (2022) (0)
Garland E. Allen III (1936–2023) (2023) (0)
lively reference tool and as a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the cur- rent state of Darwin scholarship. Many of the essays skillfully debunk tenacious myths (2016) (0)
Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications Edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel (2005) (0)
6. The Idea of Engineered and Constructed Embryos (2014) (0)
Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's View on Human Evolution (review) (2010) (0)
2. Hypothetical and Observed Embryos with Microscopes at Work (2014) (0)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1992) (0)
Editors' Introduction (2001) (0)
5. The Visible Human Embryo (2014) (0)
Charles Gillispie in the Digital Age (2011) (0)
Frederic Lawrence Holmes.Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer’s Adventures in Phage Genetics. Edited by, William C. Summers. xiv + 334 pp., figs., index. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. $50 (cloth). (2007) (0)
Thesis: The Dynamic Landscape of Abortion Law in the United States (2021) (0)
Book Review:Houses for Science: A Pictorial History of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Elizabeth L. Watson (1993) (0)
Charis Thompson.Good Science: The Ethical Choreography of Stem Cell Research. (Inside Technology.) x + 343 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $36 (cloth). (2014) (0)
Alessandro Minelli and Thomas Pradeu (eds): Towards a theory of development (2014) (0)
Garland Allen, Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Development (2015) (0)
7. Constructing Embryos for Society, Stem Cells in Action (2014) (0)
Don't toss out the biology (2016) (0)
Book Review:Information Sources in the Life Sciences H. V. Wyatt (1990) (0)
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 2017 (2018) (0)
Untangling Twinning. what science tells about the nature of human embryos MaureenCondic Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. 196 pp. $45. ISBN: 9780268107055 (2021) (0)
Naturalist administrator. (1993) (0)
Looking Inward: The "New" History of American Science@@@Transforming Traditions in American Biology, 1880-1915. (1992) (0)
Form and Function in Developmental Evolution: Introduction (2009) (0)
Thesis: From Monsters to Medicine: A Historical Analysis of Changes in the Field of Teratology Over the Twentieth Century (2021) (0)
Biology in public policy (2014) (0)
Book Review:Biological Oceanography: An Early History, 1870-1960 Eric L. Mills (1991) (0)
Book Review (2017) (0)
The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs by Catherine Waldby (review) (2020) (0)
The Cell in Development and Inheritance (1900), by Edmund Beecher Wilson (2015) (0)
The J.H.B. Bookshelf (1994) (0)
Editors' Introduction (2001) (0)
Libbie Henrietta Hyman : life and contributions. American Museum novitates ; no. 3277 (1999) (0)
Surviving Cervical Cancer: A History of Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment (2019) (0)
The J.H.B. bookshelf (1989) (0)
The First Century of Cell Theory: From Structural Units to Complex Living Systems (2017) (0)
Rotman Institute Opening (2010) (0)
Thesis: Abortion: An objective lens at the formation of the polarization and stigma (2021) (0)
A surgeon’s view of transplantation (2014) (0)
Stem-Cell Research Utilizing Embryonic Tissue Should Be Conducted (2018) (0)
JHB as a Collaborative Effort (2017) (0)
Endothelial Biomedicine: Conclusion (2007) (0)
Thesis: Growing Human Organs in Animals: Interspecies Blastocyst Complementation as a Potential Solution for Organ Transplant Limitations (2021) (0)
Help with Data Management for the Novice and Experienced Alike (2021) (0)
Editing Engagement: Visions of Science, Democracy, and Responsibility in Gene Editing Discourse (2022) (0)
Book reviews (1993) (0)
Thesis: Non-Medical Origins of Reproductive Health Solutions in the US [1] (2021) (0)
Evolution, embryology, and Ernst (2004) (0)
The JHB bookshelf (1996) (0)
Book reviews (2005) (0)
Thesis: How Purported Scientific Failures Have Led to Advancements in IVF [1] (2021) (0)
Cell Theory and Development (2020) (0)
Explaining Life.Allen B. Schlesinger (1994) (0)
Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856-1939) (2013) (0)
Why Do Stem Cells Create Such Public Controversy (2011) (0)
Book Review: Henry Gee, Jacob?s Ladder. The History of the Human Genome (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), xvi + 272 pp., $25.95. (2005) (0)
Collections and causes. (1991) (0)
Help with Data Management for the Novice and Well-Seasoned Alike (2019) (0)
Ancestral patterns (1995) (0)
3. Experimental Embryos in the Laboratory (2014) (0)
Between ecology and evolutionary biology. (1986) (0)
Cloning and stem cell debates in the context of genetic determinism. (2009) (0)

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