History of medicine

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health?

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.

Science, Technology, and the Art of Medicine contains papers by eminent scholars who discuss issues and concepts regarding the character of medicine.

This book arises from a two-fold conviction.

in the culture of medicine, and they saw their mission as a generation of profit for stockholders, not necessarily medical care for clients.

Reframing Disease Contextually will be of particular interest to philosophers of medicine, bioethicists, and philosophers.

In 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2000 as the "e;due date"e; for world health.

In this book, developed by a group of collaborating scholars in bioethics from different European countries, an overview is given of the most salient themes in present-day bioethics.

In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution.

Pediatric cardiology is celebrating in the 1990s the 50th anniversary of the beginnings of the age of therapy.

The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here.

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate.

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This volume, honoring the renowned historian of science, Allen G Debus, explores ideas of science - `experiences of nature' - from within a historiographical tradition that Debus has done much to define.

The first invasive evaluation of cardiac arrhythmias in humans was performed in 1967 in Paris (Prof.

For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has been concerned with the moral implications of medical practice.

Jabir ibn Hayyan, for a long time the reigning alchemical authority both in Islam and the Latin West, has exercised numerous generations of scholars.

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.

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Recent progress in the analysis and structural characterisation of materials has an increasing impact on studies of archaeological specimens.

Despite the modem recovery of virtue theory in ethics, conceptions of temperance remain largely unexamined.

My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology.

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.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the complex issues surrounding the regulation of the medical profession.

This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context.

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.

"e;Only once in a great while does a book come along that really does the job in addressing a major medical issue.

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.

Michael Ryan (d.

Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful instrument makers in the renowned nineteenth-century precision instrument trade of Paris.

The study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors.

The book provides a clear overview of the various research stages of cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, and cardiac anesthesia.

Explore the many forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practiced today and discover their histories, guiding principles, purported benefits, and potential risks.