The human biology of Jim Tanner

In 1940, during his second year of medical training, Jim Tanner expressed the desire to work, 'where physiology, psychology and sociology meet'. His subsequent exposure to the breadth of an American medical education and to the social and economic environment of post-war Europe distilled his belief in the importance of viewing the human in a broad context. Following his visits to the American longitudinal growth studies in 1948. Jim's dreams of a broad scientific discipline that incorporated both the biology and ecology of the human were strengthened by an inspirational group of embryonic human biologists with whom he developed '… the new Human Biology …' from the '… Physical Anthropology of old…'. With Jo Weiner, Derek Roberts, Geoffrey Harrison, Arthur Mourant, Nigel Barnicot and Kenneth Oakley, Jim was to form the Society for the Study of Human Biology in 1958. The development of human biology over the next 50 years was shaped by the expertise and diversity of that group of visionary scientists who conceived the scientific discipline of 'human biology' in which biology, behaviour and social context define the human species.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2012

Erschienen:

2012

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:39

Enthalten in:

Annals of human biology - 39(2012), 5 vom: 18. Sept., Seite 329-34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cameron, Noël [VerfasserIn]
Tanner, Jim [Sonstige Person]

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Biography
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Journal Article
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Date Completed 08.01.2013

Date Revised 02.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3109/03014460.2012.695393

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM219046239