Published January, 2015
By John B. West
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Perspectives in Physiology
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This book consists of 23 essays about prominent people and events in the history of respiratory physiology. Although it concentrates on physiology, it also describes how cultural movements, such as The Enlightenment, shaped the researchers discussed. This book is published on behalf of the American Physiological Society by Springer.

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Published October, 2014
By Jack A. Rall and Chelsea Angelos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Perspectives in Physiology
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This book describes the evolution of ideas relating to the mechanism of muscular contraction since the discovery of sliding filaments in 1954.

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