(Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part 6. Medicine.) By Joseph Needham, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. 261 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2000. $75. ISBN 0-521-63262-5.
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) was the Sir William Dunn Readerin Biochemistry at Cambridge University for many years and authorof two classic works that synthesized morphology, embryology,and biochemistry for the first time, Chemical Embryology (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1931) and Biochemistry and Morphogenesis(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1942). In the late 1930s,Needham became interested in the scientific traditions of EastAsia, China in particular, and he turned much of his energy,enthusiasm, and erudition to this field in the form of a massiveproject to compile the records and history of what he saw asscience and civilization . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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