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Author:   Mirko Grmek ,  Pierre-Olivier Méthot ,  Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
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9780823280346

ISBN 10:   0823280349
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Editor and Translator’s Note Foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Université Laval, Québec) Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 1. Preliminaries to the 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 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 History of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology 7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 8. A Memoricide 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens Bibliography Index

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a medical doctor by training, [Gremek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries: national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders. --Hans-J�rg Rheinberger, from the foreword

A medical doctor by training, [Grmek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries: national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders.---Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, from the foreword This important interdisciplinary work crosses national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary borders to make a positive contribution to the fields of history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, philosophy of science, and philology... High recommended. -- ""Choice""

This important interdisciplinary work crosses national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary borders to make a positive contribution to the fields of history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, philosophy of science, and philology... High recommended. -- Choice A medical doctor by training, [Grmek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries: national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders.---Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, from the foreword,

A medical doctor by training, [Grmek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries: national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders. --Hans-J rg Rheinberger, from the foreword

A medical doctor by training, [Grmek] opened a new chapter in the history of medicine. Instead of focusing on illnesses as a human condition and the historically changing means of their conceptualization and remediation, he paved the way for looking at diseases as historical agents, both in their interactions with each other and their impacts on the course of human culture, be it plague in the Middle Ages or AIDS more recently. . . He was a paragon of crossing boundaries: national, cultural, linguistic, as well as disciplinary borders. -- Hans-Joerg Rheinberger, from the foreword This important interdisciplinary work crosses national, cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary borders to make a positive contribution to the fields of history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, philosophy of science, and philology... High recommended. * Choice *

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Mirko Grmek (Author) Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) was a Croatian and French historian, writer, and scientist. Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Edited & Translated By) Pierre-Olivier Méthot is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Laval. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Foreword By) Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Professor Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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