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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur Catalogus
Author: Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica, De Phantasiae Usu, Lusu Et Abusu In Medicina
Author: Michael AlbertiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Psychosomatic
Languages : la
Pages : 40
Book Description
Franco-Gallia
Author: Francis HotomanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752365188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Franco-Gallia by Francis Hotoman
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine
Author: Mark JacksonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199546495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Medicine in the Enlightenment
Author: Roy PorterPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051835625
Category : Enlightenment
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The interpretation of eighteenth-century medicine has been much contested. Some have view it as a wilderness of rationalism and arid theories between the Scientific Revolution and the astonishing changes of the nineteenth-century. Other scholars have emphasized the close and fruitful links between medicine and the Enlightenment, suggesting that medical advance was the very embodiment of the philosphes ' ideal of a practical science that would improve mankind's lot and foster human happiness. In a series of essays covering Great Britain, France, Germany and other parts of Europe, noted historians debate these issues through detailed examinations of major aspects of eighteenth-century medicine and medical controversy, including such topics as the introduction of smallpox inoculation, the transformation of medical education, and the treatment of the insane. The essays as a whole suggest a positive reading of the transformations in eighteenth-century medicine, while stressing local diversity and uneven development.
The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Andrew CunninghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
Author: William F. BynumPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415164191
Category : History of Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
This text provides an account of the development of medical science in its various branches, and includes discussions of the medical profession and its institutions, and the impact of medicine upon populations, economic development, culture, religions, and thought.
A Contagious Cause
Author: Robin Wolfe SchefflerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022662837X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Is cancer a contagious disease? In the late nineteenth century this idea, and attending efforts to identify a cancer “germ,” inspired fear and ignited controversy. Yet speculation that cancer might be contagious also contained a kernel of hope that the strategies used against infectious diseases, especially vaccination, might be able to subdue this dread disease. Today, nearly one in six cancers are thought to have an infectious cause, but the path to that understanding was twisting and turbulent. A Contagious Cause is the first book to trace the century-long hunt for a human cancer virus in America, an effort whose scale exceeded that of the Human Genome Project. The government’s campaign merged the worlds of molecular biology, public health, and military planning in the name of translating laboratory discoveries into useful medical therapies. However, its expansion into biomedical research sparked fierce conflict. Many biologists dismissed the suggestion that research should be planned and the idea of curing cancer by a vaccine or any other means as unrealistic, if not dangerous. Although the American hunt was ultimately fruitless, this effort nonetheless profoundly shaped our understanding of life at its most fundamental levels. A Contagious Cause links laboratory and legislature as has rarely been done before, creating a new chapter in the histories of science and American politics.
Regimens of the Mind
Author: Sorana CorneanuPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226116417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In Regimens of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu proposes a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the ancient tradition of cultura animi. Corneanu traces this idea through its early modern revival and illustrates how it organizes the experimental philosophers’ reflections on the discipline of judgment, the study of nature, and the study of Scripture. It is through this lens, the author suggests, that the core features of the early modern English experimental philosophy—including its defense of experience, its epistemic modesty, its communal nature, and its pursuit of “objectivity”—are best understood.