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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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