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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 :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Table des matières:
- Front matter
- contents
- foreword
- editor and translator's note
- introduction
- 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
- 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
- seven. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth
- eight. A Memoricide
- nine. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens
- acknowledgments
- notes
- bibliography
- index