Pathological realities : essays on disease, experiments, and history / Mirko D. Grmek ; edited, translated, and with an introduction by Pierre-Olivier Méthot ; foreword by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
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
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9780823280377 (electronic bk.)
0823280373 (electronic bk.)
9780823280346
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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
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
