Carl Ludwig y el fenómeno de la institucionalización como triunfo del mecanicismo fisiológico

Ortega Lozano, Ramón ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  
  Madrid, España
Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 21, Nº. 39, 2013, págs. 67-85
Idioma: español
Enlaces
- Texto completo (pdf)

Resumen
- Carl Ludwig and the triumph of the mechanistic physiology as an institutionDuring the nineteenth century mechanistic materialism superseded vitalist theories and Naturephilosophie in the studies on life, especially in physiology. Three main reasons are proposed to explain this event: The Positivism of Auguste Comte; the theory of natural selection by Darwin, and advancements in physics and chemistry applied to the biological world. There is another important element considered as part of the latter progress: the phenomena of institutionalization, that is, the construction and development of laboratories to do physiological research. This paper will show the importance of this fact in displacing Vitalism from research on physiology. This requires exploring the foundation of the Leipzig Institute, built and designed by Carl Ludwig. This institute will be the model adopted by the subsequent medical research laboratories, as they spread across the mid-nineteenth century and continues today.