Mirko Grmek

Pathological Realities

Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History
Herausgeber: Méthot, Pierre-Olivier / Übersetzer: Méthot, Pierre-Olivier

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Produktbeschreibung

Mirko Grmek (Author) Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) was a Croatian and French historian, writer, and scientist. Pierre-Olivier M¿ot (Edited & Translated By) Pierre-Olivier M¿ot is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Universit¿aval. Hans-J¿rg Rheinberger (Foreword By) Hans-J¿rg Rheinberger is Professor Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780823280353
• ISBN-10: 0823280357
• Artikelnr.: 54470300

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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