Capocci Mauro
Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Sezione di Storia della Medicina, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Italy.
Med Secoli. 2010;22(1-3):87-110.
The paper reconstructs the historical roots of regeneration research, now a major subject in biomedicine, focusing on the development of concepts and practices from the epigenesis vs preformation debate in the late XVIII century to the experimental embryology in the first half of XX century. In this time span, regeneration attracted a good deal of attention because of its role as a natural experiment for testing developmental as well as physiological hypotheses. It is therefore a useful historical subject in order to understand the pathways of progress in life sciences and to shed some light on the epistemological debates of contemporary biomedicine.
本文重构了再生研究的历史根源，再生研究如今是生物医学中的一个主要课题，重点关注从18世纪末的渐成论与预成论之争到20世纪上半叶的实验胚胎学期间概念和实践的发展。在这段时间跨度内，再生因其作为检验发育以及生理学假设的自然实验的作用而备受关注。因此，它是一个有用的历史课题，有助于理解生命科学的进步路径，并为当代生物医学的认识论辩论提供一些启示。
