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Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History, Degrees of
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of History of Art and Architecture
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from the Department of the History of Science
Author: Harvard Senior Honors Theses from Department of History of Art and Architecture, Degrees of
Author: Final Report: Sources and documentation
Author: United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation ExperimentsPublisher:
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Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Makin' Numbers
Author: I. Bernard CohenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262032636
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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This collection of technical essays and reminiscences is a companion to I. Bernard Cohen's biography Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer. After an overview by Cohen, Part I presents the complete publication of Aiken's 1937 proposal for an automatic calculating machine, later realized as the Mark I, as well as recollections by the chief engineer in charge of construction of Mark II, Robert Campbell, and the programmer of Mark I, Richard Bloch. Henry Tropp describes Aiken's hostility to the exclusive use of binary numbers in computational systems and his alternative approach.
The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
Author: Anne HarringtonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393333973
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind-body techniques can bring us balance and healing. We’ve all heard claims like these, and many find them plausible. When it comes to disease and healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must look within ourselves. Faith, relationships, and attitude matter. But why do we believe such things? From psychoanalysis to the placebo effect to meditation, this vibrant history describes our commitments to mind-body healing as rooted in a patchwork of stories that have allowed people to make new sense of their suffering, express discontent with existing care, and rationalize new treatments and lifestyles. These stories are sometimes supported by science, sometimes quarrel with science, but are all ultimately about much more than just science.
Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science
Author: Patrick L. SchmidtPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538168308
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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In Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science, Patrick L. Schmidt tells the little-known story of how some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century struggled to elevate their emerging disciplines of cultural anthropology, sociology, and social and clinical psychology. Scorned and marginalized in their respective departments in the 1930s for pursuing the controversial theories of Freud and Jung, they persuaded Harvard to establish a new department, promising to create an interdisciplinary science that would surpass in importance Harvard’s “big three” disciplines of economics, government, and history. Although the Department of Social Relations failed to achieve this audacious goal, it nonetheless attracted an outstanding faculty, produced important scholarly work, and trained many notable graduates. At times, it was a wild ride. Some faculty became notorious for their questionable research: Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (reborn as Ram Dass) gave the psychedelic drug psilocybin to students, while Henry Murray traumatized undergraduate Theodore Kaczynski (later the Unabomber) in a three-year-long experiment. Central to the story is the obsessive quest of legendary sociologist Talcott Parsons for a single theory unifying the social sciences– the white whale to his Captain Ahab. All in all, Schmidt’s lively narrative is an instructive tale of academic infighting, hubris, and scandal.
The Inevitable Hour
Author: Emily K. AbelPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.