Elwick, James -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
James
Last Name: 
Elwick
Department / Program: 
Science and Technology Studies, York
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
33940
Email Address: 
jelwick@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Biology
Education
Geographical Region: 
Great Britain
Time Period: 
19th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
the history of written science examinations; contextualist and technical history of biology; history of examinations; metrology and standards; Victorian Britain; Herbert Spencer
Academics
PHD Program: 
History of Science
PHD University: 
IHPST/University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2004
Major Publications: 
*Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858* (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007); "Styles of Reasoning in Early to Mid-Victorian Life Research : Analysis and Palaetiology," Journal of the History of Biology 40, 2007, pp. 35-69; "The Styles of Reasoning in British Life Sciences: Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858, Book 1 of the Science and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain series (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007) 'Philosophy of Decapitation': Analysis, Biomedical Reform, and Devolution in Bodies Politic, London 1830-1850," Victorian Studies 47.2, 2005, pp. 174-187; "Herbert Spencer and the Disunity of the Social Organism," History of Science xli (2003), pp. 35-72
Membership in Academic Societies: 
HSS, ISHPSSB
Courses Taught: 
Science and Technology Studies; History of Science; History of Modern Science; Evolution; Science and Religion; Modern British History 1815-1914; Scientific Change; Genetics, Evolution and Society