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Problems of Life Research : Physiological Analyses and Phenomenological Interpretations / by Wilhelm Johann Heinrich Blasius.

Professor Wilhelm Blasius, physiologist at Giessen in West Germany, has written a book ""Probleme der Lebensforschung"" (Verlag Rombach, Freiburg 1973) which - I understand - is to be published in an English version. To me it has been of interest as an orientation in a world of t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Blasius, Wilhelm Johann Heinrich
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1976.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Epistemological and Methodological Foundations of Research into Life
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Epistemological Foundations of the Science of Life
  • 3. The Scope of the Natural Scientific Theory of Life
  • 4. Special Attributes of Organisms
  • 5. The Flow of Energy as the Most Important Principle of Scientific Biology
  • 6. Summary
  • II. Rhythm and Polarity
  • Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation
  • 1. Causal Analysis of Periodic Processes
  • 2. A Critical Analysis of a Causal-Analytic Interpretation of Rhythmic Phenomena
  • 3. Phenomenological Description of Rhythm and Polarity
  • 4. Summary
  • III. Bodily Movement and Exercise
  • Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation
  • 1. Phenomenological Interpretation of Bodily Movement
  • 2. Physiological Analysis of Bodily Movements
  • 3. Exercise as a Therapeutic Measure
  • 4. Summary
  • IV. Human Language
  • Physiological Analysis and Phenomenological Interpretation
  • 1 Physiological Analysis of the Sound of Speech and of Hearing
  • 2. A Phenomenological View of Language
  • 3. Summary
  • 4. Postscript
  • V. Stereoscopic Vision and Color Discrimination: Their Typological Polarity and Relations to Pictorial Creativeness
  • 1. Physiological Methods
  • 2. Psychological Methods
  • 3. Performance Differences in Stereoscopic Vision
  • 4. Performance Differences in Color Discrimination
  • 5. Typological and Sex Differences in the Kind of Creativity
  • 6. Stereoscopic Vision and Color Discrimination in Relation to Kind of Creativity
  • 7. The Complementary Behavior of Stereoscopic Visual Capacity and Color Discrimination Ability
  • 8. Color Discrimination, Stereoscopic Vision and the Kind of Creativity in Relation to Color Selection
  • 9. On the Polarity of Form and Color Perception
  • 10. Color Selection as a Polar Phenomenon
  • 11. Summary
  • VI. Quantitative Thinking in the Life Research
  • VII. The Essence of Health and Its Maintenance
  • VIII. Bibliography
  • IX. Author Index
  • X. Subject Index.

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