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What does the case of Christian Eijkman & the cause of beriberi show about the following aspects of doing biology?
- the role of chance or contingent events
- theoretical perspectives in interpreting data
- role and limit of controlled experiments (& distinction between causation and correlation)
- conceptual change (reinterpretations vs. cumulative growth of knowledge)
- collective nature of discovery
- scientific communication
- the cultural and economic contexts of science
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