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Pathological Realities : Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History /
Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from Yugoslavia to the academic culture of post-war France placed him at the crossroads of different intellectual...
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Forms of Living
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- foreword
- editor and translator's note
- introduction
- part one. Pathocenosis: Diseases in History
- one. Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases
- two. The Concept of Emerging Disease
- three. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses
- part two. Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences
- four. First Steps in Claude Bernard's Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver
- five. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing
- six. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes
- part three. History of Science: The Laboratory of Epistemology
- seven. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientifi c Discoveries from Myth
- Part four. Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory
- eight. A Memoricide
- nine. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens
- acknowledgments
- notes
- bibliography
- index