The present volume owes its ongm to a Colloquium on "e;Alchemy and Chemistry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries"e;, held at the Warburg Institute on 26th and 27th July 1989.
This is the first book on Einthoven in the English language; two earlier extensive reviews of his life and work were published in Dutch by his former co- workers Hoogerwerf and de Waart, in 1946 and 1957 respectively; the latter provides a brief summary in English; the former also wrote a succinct article on 73 Einthoven in English.
Beginning with a couple of essays dealing with the experimental and mathematical foundations of physics in the work of Henry Cavendish and Joseph Fourier, the volume goes on to consider the broad areas of investigation that constituted the central foci of the development of the physics discipline in the nineteenth century: electricity and magnetism, including especially the work of Michael Faraday, William Thomson, and James Clerk Maxwell; and thermodynamics and matter theory, including the theoretical work and legacy of Josiah Willard Gibbs, some experimental work relating to thermodynamics and kinetic theory of Heinrich Hertz, and the work of Felix Seyler-Hoppe on hemoglobin in the neighboring field of biophysics/biochemistry.
The growth of knowledge and its effects on the practice of medicine have been issues of philosophical and ethical interest for several decades and will remain so for many years to come.
When the eyeball is indented in total darkness, within less than 200 mil- liseconds an oval or quarter-moon shaped spot of light is perceived in the part of the visual field corresponding to the indented region of the retina.
The present anthology, edited by Marcel Herbst, is partially based on a conference, held in 2009, to reflect on the legacy of Ben-David, and contains a selection of substantially revised papers, plus four contributions specifically written for this volume.
Though the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions seemed to herald the advent of a unified study of the history and philosophy of science, it is a hard fact that history of science and philosophy of science have increasingly grown apart.
'Rapoport has written a remarkable family memoir about growing up in the loftiest of Soviet Kremlin medical circles, where her father (Yakov Rapoport) was a distinguished pathologist, a man of scientific brilliance, technical expertise, great humor, and even greater courage during the rule of Joseph Stalin, around whom many suffered violent and mysterious deaths.
This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia.
The study of medical history is interesting in itself and may help to modify the view sometimes expressed that medical students and doctors are lacking in culture of any sort.
Questo libro potrebbe intitolarsi: “Storia dell’importanza dell’aspetto e della sessualità in Italia” tanto questi due punti giocano un ruolo importante in questo contesto.
Explore the many forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practiced today and discover their histories, guiding principles, purported benefits, and potential risks.
This is one of the first single-authored books to utilise Critical Disability Studies and the lens of embodiment to comprehensively unveil, explore, and celebrate disability in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Hellenistic world through a critical examination of art, artefacts, texts, and human remains.
Este libro recopila una serie de artículos, debidamente revisados y actualizados, que fueron publicados en diversas revistas a lo largo de los últimos veinte años.
A partir de l'estudi exhaustiu de la correspondència epistolar que conté la col·lecció Monumenta Borgia, Francesc Devesa ens ofereix una anàlisi sistemàtica de les notícies sobre malalties ordinàries, epidèmies, lesions per violència, danys per catàstrofes naturals o guerres i un llarg etcètera que inclou els aspectes curatius, amb medicaments i procediments mèdics, o preventius, sense deixar de banda els hospitals i els «agents sanitaris», de metges a barbers.
Esta historia de la Facultat de Medicina de Valencia es el resultado de la colaboración de una veintena de historiadores de la Universitat de València, la Universidad Miguel Hernández, la Universidad Católica de Valencia y varios institutos del CSIC.
Originally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication.
Segunda edicion de la biografia de Santiago Ramon y Cajal (Petilla de Aragon 1852-Madrid 1934), que ha sido sin lugar a dudas el mayor prestigio cientifico de Espana.
Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as hermaphrodites , this book focuses on the genre of the case history from three different languages and national contexts-British, French, and German.
Una historia concisa de la medicina occidental, ordenada conceptualmente en torno a los grandes campos de interés médico: anatomía, farmacología, obstetricia, psiquiatría, medicina familiar.
Este volumen nos introduce históricamente en la relación entre medicina y filosofía, detalla la utilidad de una para la otra y analiza los problemas a medio camino entre la ciencia médica y la filosofía, como el concepto de persona, la dialéctica cuerpo-alma, la ética que propone la medicina, la neuroética o la muerte.
"He escrito este libro para mirar de cerca la profesión a la que me dedico y tal vez con la esperanza de despertar el interés del lector, ya que trato temas como la enfermedad y el sufrimiento que, tarde o temprano, nos afectarán a todos.
Desde siempre ha habido médicos que han sido también grandes pensadores: Copérnico, Paracelso, Chéjov o, más recientemente, Oliver Sacks, han entendido que la enfermedad no sólo concierne al cuerpo, sino también al espíritu.
InCollected Studies (Volume 4): Jews in the Medical Profession, Joseph Shatzmiller, the prominent scholar of Provence Jewry, presents a fascinating glimpse into the world of Jewish doctors and medicine in medieval Western Europe.
En este libro, los lectores hallarán un sentido de pertenencia e identidad; un espíritu de cuerpo de quienes, con sus recuerdos y voces, permiten conocer un pretérito singular; un tiempo enel que un grupo de médicos militares mexicanos evoca en distintos momentos su estancia como estudiantes, maestros y profesionales, en principio dentro de la Escuela y el Hospital militares,y después en otros centros del mismo sector o del medio civil público y privado.
