Dr Staffan Müller-Wille
Publications
Books
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, A Cultural History of Heredity, The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Full Article
with HJ Rheinberger, S Mueller-Wille, Vererbung. Geschichte und Kultur eines biologischen Konzepts, Frankfurt/M, Fischer, 2009. Publisher Website
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, Das Gen im Zeitalter der Postgenomik. Eine wissenschaftshistorische Bestandsaufnahme, Frankfurt/M., Suhrkamp, 2009. Full Article Publisher Website
with SEW Mueller-Wille, C Linnaeus, S Freer, Musa Cliffortiana: Clifford's Banana Plant, Vienna, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 2007.
with SEW Mueller-Wille, H Rheinberger, Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics and Culture, 1500-1870, MIT Press, 2007.
with SEW Mueller-Wille, D Hoffmann, H Laitko, Lexikon der bedeutenden Naturwissenschaftler. 3 Vols, Heidelberg, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2003.
Chapters
Vom Sexualsystem zur Karteikarte. Carl von Linnés Papiertechnologien, in Bäumler T,Bühler B,Rieger S (eds) Nicht Fisch – nicht Fleisch. Ordnungssysteme und ihre Störfälle, Zürich: diaphanes, 2011, 33-50
History of science and medicine, in Jackson M (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2011, 469-483
Gene, in Sarasin P,Sommer M (eds) Evolution: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, J. B. Metzler, 2010, 196-200
with SEW Mueller-Wille, H Rheinberger, Gene, in Zalta EN (eds) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, , 2009
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, De la génération à l’hérédité: continuities médiévales et conjunctures historiques modernes, in Lugt MVD,Miramon CD (eds) L’hérédité à la fin du Moyen Age, Florence: SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009, 355-388
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, Zur Genesis der Vererbung als biologisches Konzept, 1700-1900, in Avanessian A,Menninghaus W,Völker J (eds) Vita aesthetica. Szenarien ästhetischer Lebendigkeit, Berlin: diaphanes, 2009, 215-225 Full Article Publisher Website
with HJ Rheinberger, SEW Mueller-Wille, Technische Reproduzierbarkeit organischer Natur – aus der Perspektive einer Geschichte der Molekularbiologie, in Weiß MG (eds) Bios und Zoë. Die menschliche Natur im Zeitalter ihrer technischen Reproduzierbarkeit, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 2009, 11-33 Full Article Publisher Website
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, Gene Concepts, in Sarkar S,Plutynski A (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
Botanischer Tausch und Ökonomie der Natur, in al RDE (eds) Wissen im Netz – Botanik und Pflanzentransfer in europäischen Korrespondenznetzen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2008, 79-89
History redoubled: The synthesis of facts in Linnaean natural history, in al CZE (eds) Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries, Brill, 2008, 516-538 Publisher Website
Naturgeschichte, in Jaeger F (eds) Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008, 1175-1196
'Race et appartenance ethnique: la diversité humaine et l’UNESCO Déclarations sur la race (1950 et 1951), in 60 ans d’histoire de l’UNESCO. Actes du colloque international, Paris, 16–18 novembre 2005, Paris: UNESCO, 2007, 211-220
'Heredity: The formation of an epistemic space', in Mueller-Wille S,Rheinberger H (eds) Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870, Cambridge/Mass: MIT Press, 2007, 3-34
'Figures of inheritance, 1650-1850', in Mueller-Wille S,Rheinberger H (eds) Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870, Cambridge/Mass: MIT Press, 2007, 177-204
'Dissolution and coordination. Some general remarks on the history and epistemology of molecular biology', in Workshop: History and Epistemology of Molecular Biology and Beyond: Problems and Perspectives, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2006, 255-257
'Schwarz, Weiß, Gelb, Rot. Zur Darstellung menschlicher Vielfalt', in Heesen AT,Lutz P (eds) Dingwelten. Das Museum als Erkenntnisort, Köln: Böhlau, 2005, 161-170
'Konstellation, Serie, Formation. Genealogische Denkfiguren bei Harvey, Linnaeus und Darwin', in al SWE (eds) Generation. Zur Genealogie des Konzepts - Konzepte von Genealogie, München: Wilhelm Fink, 2005, 215-233
'Paradies, Akademie, Ökonomie. Zur Transformation botanischer Gärten im 18. Jahrhundert', in Hoefer NN,Ananieva A (eds) Der andere Garten. Erinnern und erfinden in Gärten von Institutionen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, 235-249
'Walnut-trees at Hudson Bay, coral reefs in Gotland: Linnaean botany and its relation to colonialism', in Schiebinger L,Swan C (eds) Colonial botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, 34-48
'La science baconienne en action: la place de Linné dans l'histoire de la taxinomie', in Hoquet T (eds) les fondements de la botanique. Linné et la classification des plantes, Paris: Vuibert, 2005, 57-102
'Eruditio historica, critica, antiqua. Quellen der Naturgeschichte (Eruditio historica, critica, antiqua: The sources of natural history), in Rathmann T,Wegmann N (eds) Quelle’. Zwischen Ursprung und Konstrukt. Ein Leitbegriff in der Diskussion, Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2004, 89-101
'Ein Anfang ohne Ende. Das Archiv der Naturgeschichte und die Geburt der Biologie (A beginning without an end. The archives of natural history and the birth of biology), in Dülmen RV,Rauschenbach S (eds) Macht des Wissens. Die Entstehung der modernen Wissengesellschaft, Köln: Böhlau, 2004, 587-605
Was ist Rasse? Die UNESCO-Erklärungen von 1950 und 1951, in al PLE (eds) Der (im-)perfekte Mensch. Metamorphosen von Normalität und Abweichung, Koln: Böhlau, 2003, 57-71
Vererbung, in Evolution: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, J. B. Metzler, 55-57
Evolutionstheorien vor Darwin, in Evolution: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, J. B. Metzler, 65-78
Variation, in Sommer M,Sarasin P (eds) Evolution: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, J. B. Metzler, 52-55
Carl von Linnés Herbarschrank. Zur epistemischen Funktion eines Sammlungsmöbels, in Heesen AT,Spary E (eds) Sammeln als Wissen. Das Sammeln und seine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Bedeutung, Göttingen: Wallstein, 22-38
with K Böhme, SEW Müller-Wille, Biologie: Wissenschaft vom Werden, Wissenschaft im Werden, in Geschichte der Universität Unter den Linden, 1810-2010, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 425-446
Conferences
with SEW Mueller-Wille, V Orel, Mendel and Darwin on Heredity, , 2009, 309-311 Full Article
Internet publications
with A Kraus, F Wolff, "Eher Zirkus als Legebatterie." Staffan Müller-Wille als Dompteur des eigenen Assoziationsreichtums, , 2010 Publisher Website
Gene, , 2008 Full Article
Journal articles
with I Charmantier, Natural history and information overload: The case of Linnaeus, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 43, 2012, 4-15 DOI
Appropriating and Translating Darwin, Science as Culture, 2011 DOI
Making sense of essentialism, Critical Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 4, 2011
with M O'Malley, S Mueller-Wille, The cell as nexus: connections between the history, philosophy and science of cell biology, Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biologicval and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 41, no. 3, 2010, 169-171 DOI
Cell Theory, Specificty, and Reproduction, 1837–1870, Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biologicval and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 41, no. 3, 2010, 225-231 DOI
Claude Lévi-Strauss on race, history, and genetics, BioSocieties, vol. 5, no. 3, 2010, 330-347 DOI
[Review of] Marianne Sommer, Bones and Ochre: The Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland, Cambridge, MA., 2009, British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 42, no. 4, 2009, 619-620
with SEW Mueller-Wille, S Scharf, Indexing Nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and his Fact-Gathering Strategies, Working Papers on The Nature of Evidence: How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel?, 2009 Publisher Website
with SEW Mueller-Wille, HJ Rheinberger, Race and genomics. Old Wine in New Bottles? Documents from an Interdisciplinary Discussion, NTM – Journal of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, vol. 16, no. 3, 2008, 363-386
Collection and Collation: Theory and Practice in Linnaean Botany , Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 38, no. 3, 2007, 541-562 DOI
From Linnaean Species to Mendelian Factors: Elements of Hybridism, 1751-1870 , Annals of Science, vol. 64, no. 2, 2007, 171-215 DOI
'The love of plants', Nature, vol. 446, no. 7133, 2007
with SEW Mueller-Wille, A Powell, M O'Malley, J Calvert, J Dupre, 'Disciplinary baptisms: A comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics and systems biology', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 29, no. 1, 2007, 5-32
A translation of Carl Linnaeus's introduction to the Genera plantarum, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 38, no. 3, 2007, 563-572
'Linnaeus’ herbarium cabinet: a piece of furniture and its function', Endeavour, vol. 30, no. 2, 2006, 60-64
Early Mendelism and the Subversion of Taxonomy: Epistemological Obstacles as Institutions, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 36, no. 3, 2005, 465-487 DOI
'Zum Verhätniss von Taxonomie und Genetik um 1900. Die Zuchtstation des Schwedischen Saatzuchtvereins Svalöf', Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie, vol. 11, 2005, 203-216
Joining Lapland and the Topinambes in flourishing Holland: Center and periphery in Linnaean botany, Science in Context, vol. 16, no. 4, 2003, 461-488 DOI
Nature as a marketplace: The political economy of Linnaean botany, History of Political Economy, vol. 35, no. S1, 2003, 154-172 DOI
Gardens of Paradise, Endeavour, vol. 25, no. 2, 2001, 49-54
La storia raddoppiata. La sintesi dei fatti nella storia naturale di Linneo, Quaderni storici, vol. 108, no. 3, 2001, 823-842
Hybrids, pure cultures, and pure lines: From nineteenth-century biology to twentieth century genetics, Studies in History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 38, no. 4, 796-806
The Dark Side of Evolution: Caprice, Deceit, Redundancy, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 31, no. 2, 183-199
Eugenics: Then and Now, Metascience, vol. 20, 347-349 DOI
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Metamorphosis of Plants, Cambridge, MA, 2009, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 33, no. 2, 268-269
James Schwartz, In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA, Cambridge MA, 2008, Isis, vol. 100, no. 2, 386-387 Publisher Website
Naturgeschichte und wissenschaftliche Revolution, NTM: Journal of the History of Science, technology and medicine, vol. 17, no. 3, 329-338 Full Article Publisher Website
