Author : Francois Delaporte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Chagas' disease
ISBN : 0823258475
Chagas Disease
Francois Delaporte
Chagas Disease History Of A Continent S Scourge
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Chagas Disease:History of a Continent's Scourge
Francois Delaporte
Author : Francois Delaporte
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823242498
Chagas Disease:History of a Continent's Scourge by Francois Delaporte Pdf
In Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge, Francois Delaporte describes how the interaction of public health policy with medical knowledge and epistemological transformations in the period 1900-1935 can account for the discovery of a continental endemic. It also deconstructs the myths that surround a number of major medical discoveries in both Brazil and Argentina.
Chagas Disease
François Delaporte
Author : François Delaporte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : MEDICAL
ISBN : 0823291138
Chagas Disease by François Delaporte Pdf
François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic thyroiditis. Chagas's work did not lack significance: the disease that came to share his name would be one of Latin America's most serious endemic diseases. However, the clinical identification of the disease through "Romaña's sign" (a palpebral edema or swelling of the eyelid) some decades later marked a transformation in the general medical knowledge of the disease and its basis altogether. Not only was the disease entity that Chagas had described shown to be a nosological illusion, but twenty-five years of scientific controversy turned out to have been based on a misunderstanding. The continued use of the term "Chagas's Disease" even after Cecilio Romaña's discovery thus refers to a fundamental ambiguity. Delaporte dispels this ambiguity by re-examining the various discoveries, dead ends, controversies, and major epistemological transformations that marked the history of the disease--a history that begins with the creation of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro and ends in the forests of Santa Fe in northern Argentina. Delaporte's study shows how an epistemological focus can add depth to the history of medicine and complexity to accounts of scientific discovery.
The Mosquito
Timothy C. Winegard
Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781925774702
The Mosquito by Timothy C. Winegard Pdf
The surprising true story of how the course of human history was redirected, time and again, by the pesky mosquito.
Canguilhem
Stuart Elden
Author : Stuart Elden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781509528813
Canguilhem by Stuart Elden Pdf
Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis in philosophy on the concept of the reflex, supervised by Gaston Bachelard. He was the sponsor of Michel Foucault’s doctoral thesis on madness. However, his work extends far beyond what is suggested by his association with these thinkers. Canguilhem also produced a series of important works on the natural sciences, including studies of evolution, psychology, vitalism and mechanism, experimentation, monstrosity and disease. Stuart Elden discusses the whole of this important thinker’s complex work, including recently rediscovered texts and archival materials. Canguilhem always approached questions historically, examining how it was that we came to a significant moment in time, outlining tensions, detours and paths not taken. The first comprehensive study in English, this book is a crucial guide for those coming to terms with Canguilhem’s important contributions, and will appeal to researchers and students from a range of fields.
A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner,Oliver J Kim
Author : Lois N. Magner,Oliver J Kim
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781138197121
A History of Medicine by Lois N. Magner,Oliver J Kim Pdf
Designed for survey courses in the field A History of Medicine presents a wide-ranging overview for those seeking a solid grounding in the medical history of Western and non-Western cultures. Invaluable to instructors promoting the history of medicine in pre-professional training, and stressing major themes in the history of medicine, this third edition continues to stimulate further exploration of the events, methodologies, and theories that have shaped medical practices in decades past and continue to do so today.
Anthropology of Infectious Disease
Merrill Singer
Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315434728
Anthropology of Infectious Disease by Merrill Singer Pdf
This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ecosystems and various other species that are future sources of new human infections. Anthropology of Infectious Disease integrates and advances research in this growing, multifaceted area and offers an ideal supplement to courses in anthropology, public health, development studies, and related fields.
War in Worcester:
Pamela Reynolds
Author : Pamela Reynolds
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823243099
War in Worcester: by Pamela Reynolds Pdf
Filling a gap in the ethnographic analysis of the role of youth in armed conflict, this book describes, from the perspective of the young fighters themselves, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated, young peoples' experiences of pain and loss, the effect on fighters of the extensive use of informers by the state as a weapon of war, and the search for an ethic of survival.
The Affect Lab
Grant Bollmer
Author : Grant Bollmer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452969817
The Affect Lab by Grant Bollmer Pdf
Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it Since the late nineteenth century, psychologists have used technological forms of media to measure and analyze emotion. In The Affect Lab, Grant Bollmer examines the use of measurement tools such as electrical shocks, photography, video, and the electroencephalograph to argue that research on emotions has confused the physiology of emotion with the tools that define its inscription. Bollmer shows that the psychological definitions of emotion have long been directly shaped by the physical qualities of the devices used in laboratory research. To investigate these devices, The Affect Lab examines four technologies related to the history of psychology in North America: spiritualist toys at Harvard University, serial photography in early American psychological laboratories, experiments on “psychopaths” performed with an instrument called an Offner Dynograph, and the development of the “electropsychometer,” or “E-Meter,” by Volney Mathison and L. Ron Hubbard. Challenging the large body of humanities research surrounding affect theory, The Affect Lab identifies an understudied problem in formulations of affect: how affect is a construction inseparable from the techniques and devices used to identify and measure it. Ultimately, Bollmer offers a new critique of affect and affect theory, demonstrating how deferrals to psychology and neuroscience in contemporary theory and philosophy neglect the material of experimental, scientific research. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
Pathological Realities
Mirko Grmek
Author : Mirko Grmek
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780823280360
Pathological Realities by Mirko Grmek Pdf
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 trends and made him an influential figure during the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, scholars have rarely attempted to articulate his distinctive vision of the history of science and medicine with all its tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. This volume brings together and publishes for the first time in English a range of Grmek’s writings, providing a portrait of his entire career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Pathological Realities pieces together Grmek’s scholarship that reveals the interconnections of diseases, societies, and medical theories. Straddling the sciences and the humanities, Grmek crafted significant new concepts and methods to engage with contemporary social problems such as wars, genocides and pandemics. Uniting some major strands of his published work that are still dispersed or simply unknown, this volume covers the deep epistemological changes in historical conceptions of disease as well as major advances within the life sciences and their historiography. Opening with a classic essay – “Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases,” this volume introduces Grmek’s notions of “pathocenosis” and “emerging infections,” illustrating them with historical and contemporary cases. Pathological Realities also showcases Grmek’s pioneering approach to the history of science and medicine using laboratory notebooks as well as his original work on biological thought and the role of ideologies and myths in the history of science. The essays assembled here reveal Grmek’s significant influence and continued relevance for current research in the history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, and the philosophy of science.
The Helmholtz Curves
Henning Schmidgen
Author : Henning Schmidgen
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823261963
The Helmholtz Curves by Henning Schmidgen Pdf
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of “lost time” by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust. Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images that Helmholtz produced in the context of pathbreaking experiments on the temporality of the nervous system in 1851. With a “frog drawing machine,” Helmholtz established the temporal gap between stimulus and response that has remained a core issue in debates between neuroscientists and philosophers. When naming the recorded phenomena, Helmholtz introduced the term temps perdu, or lost time. Proust had excellent contacts with the biomedical world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, and he was familiar with this term and physiological tracing technologies behind it. Drawing on the machine philosophy of Deleuze, Schmidgen highlights the resemblance between the machinic assemblages and rhizomatic networks within which Helmholtz and Proust pursued their respective projects.
Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
Leif Weatherby
Author : Leif Weatherby
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780823269426
Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ by Leif Weatherby Pdf
Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls “Romantic organology.” Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs—a metaphysics meant to theorize, and ultimately alter, the structure of a politically and scientifically destabilized world.
What's These Worlds Coming To?
Jean-Luc Nancy,Aurélien Barrau
Author : Jean-Luc Nancy,Aurélien Barrau
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823263356
What's These Worlds Coming To? by Jean-Luc Nancy,Aurélien Barrau Pdf
The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding. Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and networks of cross-national assemblages—and we do this at the same time as we form multinational corporations that no longer pay taxes to the state. Nancy and Barrau invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, “What’s this world coming to?” is used to question our conventional thinking about the world. We soon find ourselves living among heaps of odd bits and pieces that are amassing without any unifying force or center, living not only in a time of ruin and fragmentation but in one of rebuilding. Astrophysicist Aurelien Barrau articulates a major shift in the paradigm of contemporary physics from a universe to a multiverse. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay “Of Struction” is a contemporary comment on the project of deconstruction and French poststructuralist thought. Together Barrau and Nancy argue that contemporary thought has shifted from deconstruction to what they carefully call the struction of dis-order.
The Ploy of Instinct
Kathleen Frederickson
Author : Kathleen Frederickson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823262533
The Ploy of Instinct by Kathleen Frederickson Pdf
It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confession and introspection, given that instinct had long been defined in its opposition to self-conscious thought. The Ploy of Instinct ties this paradox to instinct’s deployment in conceptualizing governmentality. Instinct’s domain, Frederickson argues, extended well beyond the women, workers, and “savages” to whom it was so often ascribed. The concept of instinct helped to gloss over contradictions in British liberal ideology made palpable as turn-of-the-century writers grappled with the legacy of Enlightenment humanism. For elite European men, instinct became both an agent of “progress” and a force that, in contrast to desire, offered a plenitude in answer to the alienation of self-consciousness. This shift in instinct’s appeal to privileged European men modified the governmentality of empire, labor, and gender. The book traces these changes through parliamentary papers, pornographic fiction, accounts of Aboriginal Australians, suffragette memoirs, and scientific texts in evolutionary theory, sexology, and early psychoanalysis.
Systems of Life
Richard A. Barney,Warren Montag
Author : Richard A. Barney,Warren Montag
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823281732
Systems of Life by Richard A. Barney,Warren Montag Pdf
Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid– eighteenth to the mid–nineteenth century. In staging an encounter among literature, political economy, and the still emergent sciences of life in that historical moment, the essays collected here reopen the question of how concepts of animal, vegetable, and human life, among other biological registers, had an impact on the Enlightenment project of thinking politics and economics as a joint enterprise. The volume’s contributors consider politics, economics, and the biological as distinct, semi-autonomous spheres whose various combinations required inventive, sometimes incomplete, acts of conceptual mediation, philosophical negotiation, disciplinary intervention, or aesthetic representation.