Author: Thomas F. Baskett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386199
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession and represent the historic tradition and language of the speciality. This collection aims to perpetuate the names and contributions of pioneers and offer introductory profiles to the founders in whose steps we follow. This third edition includes 26 new entries, as well as expanded detail, illustration and quotation for existing entries. Biographical data and historical and medical context are discussed for each of the 391 names, with reference to 34 countries, reflecting the field's far reaching origins. More than 1700 original references feature, alongside an extensive bibliography of more than 2500 linked references to assist readers searching for more detailed information. This is a volume for physicians, midwives, medical historians, medical ethicists and all those interested in the history and evolution of obstetrical and gynaecological treatment.
Eponyms and Names in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Author: Thomas F. Baskett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386199
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession and represent the historic tradition and language of the speciality. This collection aims to perpetuate the names and contributions of pioneers and offer introductory profiles to the founders in whose steps we follow. This third edition includes 26 new entries, as well as expanded detail, illustration and quotation for existing entries. Biographical data and historical and medical context are discussed for each of the 391 names, with reference to 34 countries, reflecting the field's far reaching origins. More than 1700 original references feature, alongside an extensive bibliography of more than 2500 linked references to assist readers searching for more detailed information. This is a volume for physicians, midwives, medical historians, medical ethicists and all those interested in the history and evolution of obstetrical and gynaecological treatment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386199
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Few specialties have a longer or richer eponymous background than obstetrics and gynaecology. Eponyms add a human side to an increasingly technical profession and represent the historic tradition and language of the speciality. This collection aims to perpetuate the names and contributions of pioneers and offer introductory profiles to the founders in whose steps we follow. This third edition includes 26 new entries, as well as expanded detail, illustration and quotation for existing entries. Biographical data and historical and medical context are discussed for each of the 391 names, with reference to 34 countries, reflecting the field's far reaching origins. More than 1700 original references feature, alongside an extensive bibliography of more than 2500 linked references to assist readers searching for more detailed information. This is a volume for physicians, midwives, medical historians, medical ethicists and all those interested in the history and evolution of obstetrical and gynaecological treatment.
German Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries
Author: John Oliver Hand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
The Century of the Gene
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Studies in seventeenth-century imagery
Author: Mario Praz
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN: 9788887114874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN: 9788887114874
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Bibliography of Publications
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
Author: Sander Govaerts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781641893985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781641893985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.
The History of Musical Pitch
Author: Alexander John Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical pitch
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musical pitch
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Mudd Family of the United States
Author: Richard Dyer Mudd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
New Dictionary of South African Biography
Author: E. J. Verwey
Publisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796916488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.
Publisher: HSRC Press
ISBN: 9780796916488
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.