Vitalistic and Mechanistic Concepts in the History of Bioelectromagnetics
 
Presented at the International
Alexander G.Gurwitsch Conference, September 28-October 2, 1994 at the Faculty of Biology,
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.

 
A number of actual discussions in bioelectromagnetics and biophoton research can be shown to form part of an argument between two schools that has been going on since about three hundred years. The discussion between vitalistic and mechanistic thinking in bioelectromagnetics has started with the opening of this field of inquiry in the 16th century. However, in every epoch it has taken another form according to contemporary conceptual frameworks and scientific terminologies.

 
Copyright 1995
 
Published in: Beloussov, L.V., and Popp, F.A. (eds.): Biophotonics - Non-Equilibrium and
Coherent Systems in Biophysics, Biology and Biotechnology“. Proceedings of the International
Alexander G.Gurwitsch Conference, September 28-October 2, 1994 at the Faculty of Biology,
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow. Bioinform Services, Moscow, Russland,
1995, pp.3-14.

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