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Pathological Realities : Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Forms of Living SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823280377
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pathological RealitiesDDC classification:
  • 610.9
LOC classification:
  • RB15 .G764 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Pathological Realities -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Editor and Translator's Note -- Introduction: Mirko Grmek's Investigative Pathway -- Part I. Pathocenosis: Diseases in History -- 1. Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases -- 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease -- 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses -- Part II. Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences -- 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard's Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver -- 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing -- 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes -- Part III. History of Science: The Laboratory of Epistemology -- 7. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth -- Part IV. Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory -- 8. A Memoricide -- 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.
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Cover -- Pathological Realities -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Editor and Translator's Note -- Introduction: Mirko Grmek's Investigative Pathway -- Part I. Pathocenosis: Diseases in History -- 1. Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases -- 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease -- 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses -- Part II. Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences -- 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard's Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver -- 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing -- 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes -- Part III. History of Science: The Laboratory of Epistemology -- 7. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth -- Part IV. Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory -- 8. A Memoricide -- 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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