Grmek / Méthot Pathological Realities

Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8037-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Forms of Living

A collection of essays by Mirko D. Grmek, providing a portrait of his career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. Uniting some important strands of his published work, it covers deep epistemological changes in disease concepts and major advances in the life sciences and their historiography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grmek, Mirko

Méthot, Pierre-Olivier

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 VirusesExperiments 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 MythMemoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory
8. A Memoricide
9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic AthensBibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grmek Mirko:
Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) was a Croatian and French historian, writer, and scientist.Méthot Pierre-Olivier:
Pierre-Olivier Méthot is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Université Laval.Rheinberger Hans-Jörg:
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Professor Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.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.