Jean Rostand Research Articles

La Vie Politique d'Édouard Herriot

Journal Article La Vie Politique d'Édouard Herriot Get access La Vie Politique d'Édouard Herriot. By Michael Soulié. Preface by Jean Rostand. Paris: Armand Colin. 1962. 626 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index. NF 32.50. Geoffrey Warner Geoffrey Warner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 1, January 1963, Page 109, https://doi.org/10.2307/2610545 Published: 01 January 1963

Error and Deception in Science: Essays on Biological Aspects of Life

Those who are not hostile to criticism and are not bewildered by a dour and pessimistic view of the actual accomplishments of science, as compared to its great promise, should get a great deal of pleasure from this series of brilliant critiques and frontal attacks on the complacency which often envelops men who fix their attention so doggedly on minutiae that they lose contact with the real world in which they move. Jean Rostand, the son of the French poet who gave us<i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i>, has achieved distinction as a scientist working in the field of experimental biology. Certain biological aspects of the melancholy longevity of error are explored under the title, The Natural History of Error. Perhaps the most delicious morsel in Rostand's rich banquet of confusion, chaos, and mistakes in science, often propagated unwittingly by true scientists, and even more often perverted by quacks, mystics, and fanatics

Error and Deception in Science: Essays on Biological Aspects of Life

Those who are not hostile to criticism and are not bewildered by a dour and pessimistic view of the actual accomplishments of science as compared to its great promise, should get a great deal of pleasure from this series of brilliant critiques and frontal attacks on the complacency which often envelops men who fix their attention so doggedly on minutiae that they lose contact with the real world in which they move. Jean Rostand, the son of the French poet who gave us<i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i>, has achieved distinction as a scientist working in the field of experimental biology. Taking my cue from Wilfred Trotter who so brilliantly expounded the obscurities surrounding what he called "the mysterious viability of the false," I have explored certain biological aspects of the melancholy longevity of error under the title of<i>The Natural History of Error</i>. Perhaps the most delicious morsel in Rostand's rich

Garbled Information: Human Heredity . Jean Rostand. Translated by Wade Baskin. Philosophical Library, New York, 1961. 139 pp. $4.75.

Garbled Information: <i>Human Heredity</i> . Jean Rostand. Translated by Wade Baskin. Philosophical Library, New York, 1961. 139 pp. $4.75.

Errors and Deception in Science. Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4

Errors and Deception in Science. Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4

Errors and Deception in Science . Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4.

<i>Errors and Deception in Science</i> . Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4.

Errors and Deception in Science . Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4.

<i>Errors and Deception in Science</i> . Essays on biological aspects of life. Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by A. J. Pomerans. Basic Books, New York, 1960. 196 pp. Illus. $4.

Can Man Be Modified? Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. Basic Books, New York, 1959. 105 pp. $3.

<i>Can Man Be Modified?</i> Jean Rostand. Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. Basic Books, New York, 1959. 105 pp. $3.

Embryology, Epigenetics and Biogenetics

IN his stimulating review of Prof. C. H. Waddington's “Principles of Embryology”, Dr. Julian Huxley1 expresses the hope that Prof. Waddington will write a sequel, and, following his earlier impulse, call it “Principles of Epigenetics”. While the term ‘embryology’ suggests a field far more restricted than that which this department of science is now concerned with, the suggested alternative, ‘epigenetics’, has disadvantages of another kind. It still reverberates with the overtones of a cause celebre, a controversy in which, as it now appears, neither ‘epigenesis’ nor ‘preformation’ gained a decisive victory. For whereas identifiable organized units, whether organs or tissues, appear successively from an apparently undifferentiated mass, there is now no question but that the material determinants of these new structures are preformed in the chromosomes recognizable before the beginning of embryonic life. That this caution is not a matter of mere historical pedantry is evidenced by the fact that another worker of long experience in this field, M. Jean Rostand, has recently2 referred to the “extravagances du preformationnisme” and the “naivetes de l'pigenese”.

Human Biology for the Masses

Life, the Great Adventure By Jean Rostand. (Discussions with Paul Bodin.) Translated by Alan Houghton Brodrick. Pp. 258. (London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1955.) 12s. 6d. net.

Biology and the Burden of Our Times

In the following two articles, translated from the French, it is shown that progress in biology and surgery can confront the human conscience with decisions as momentous as any posed by the existence of the atomic bomb. Jean Rostand is a French biologist, author of L'Evolution des especes, La genese de la Vie, L'Avenir de la Biologie, and other books.

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. Translated and edited, with an Introduction, by Dr A. A. BrillSuperstition and Society. By Roger Money‐KyrleThe Neurotic Personality of our Time. By Karen HorneyThe Growing Child and its Problems. Edited by Emmanuel MillerThe Human Mind. By Karl A. MenningerThe Generations: A Study of the Cycle of Parents and Children. By Emmanuel MillerGuiding the Child. By Alfred Adler, M.D.The Individual Criminal. Vol. i, Cases 1–5. By Ben KarpmanChildren's Dreams: An Unexplored Land. By Dr C. W. KimminsThe Occupational Treatment of Mental Illness. By John Ivison Russell, M.D.A. R. P. By J. B. S. Haldane, F.R.S.The Doctor's View of War. Edited by J. JoulesFreud and Marx. A Dialectical Study. By R. OsbornSigmund Freud. A Marxian Essay. By Francis H. BartlettRace, Sex and Environment. By J. R. de la H. MarettSocial and Psychological Aspects of Education in Taleland. By M. FortesBritish Medical Societies. Edited by Sir D'Arcy PowerBlack Hamlet: The Mind of an African Negro Revealed by Psycho‐Analysis. By Wulf SachsSex, Custom and Psychopathology. A Study of South African Pagan Natives. By B. J. F. LaubscherReactions of the Human Machine. By John Yerbury DentThe Sadist. By Karl Berg. Translated by Olga Illner and George GodwinPeter Kürtin. A Study in Sadism. By George GodwinThe Nineteen Thirty‐eight Mental Measurements Yearbook of the School of Education of Rutgers University. Edited by Oscar K. BurosMis‐mated. The Psychology of the Unhappy Marriage. By J. F. PetersPersonality Structure in Schizophrenia. By S. J. BeckAdventures Before Birth. By Jean Rostand. Translated by Joseph NeedhamHypnosis, its Meaning and Practice. By Eric Cuddon.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:“The Toxaemias of Pregnancy,” by Louise Mcilroy, D.B.E., LL.D., M.D., D.Sc., F.C.O.G., M.R.C.P.“Urology in Women” (2nd ed.), by E. Catharine Lewis, M.S., F.R.C.S.“Adventures Before Birth,” by Jean Rostand; translated by Joseph Needham.“Manual of Emergencies,” by J. Snowman, M.D.