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Author | : A. Homei |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113737702X |
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mid 19th century to the dawn of the 21st century.
Author | : John V. Pickstone |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 19?? |
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Author | : John V. Pickstone |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719059940 |
This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine.
Author | : Paul T. Durbin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : Ronald E. Doel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134482973 |
Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography and methodology of recent and contemporary science, this book reviews the problems facing historians of technology, contemporary science and medicine and explores new ways forward.
Author | : David Arnold |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521563192 |
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examining the role of science, technology and medicine in conjunction with the development of the British engagement in India and in the formation of Indian responses to western intervention. One of the first works to analyse the colonial era as a whole from the perspective of science, the book investigates the relationship between Indian and western science, the nature of science, technology and medicine under the Company, the creation of state-scientific services, 'imperial science' and the rise of an Indian scientific community, the impact of scientific and medical research and the dilemmas of nationalist science.
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Publisher | : National Academies |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Research |
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Author | : Mark Jackson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199546495 |
In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.
Author | : Helaine Selin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 2428 |
Release | : 2008-03-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 140204559X |
Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Author | : Donald R. Kirsch |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2016-12-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1628727195 |
The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity— by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters offer a lively tour of how new drugs are actually found, the discovery strategies, the mistakes, and the rare successes. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the book with his own expertise and experiences from thirty-five years of drug hunting, whether searching for life-saving molecules in mudflats by Chesapeake Bay or as a chief science officer and research group leader at major pharmaceutical companies.