The History of the English Organ

The History of the English Organ
Author: Stephen Bicknell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521654098

This 1996 book describes the history of organs built in England from AD 900 to the present day.

The History of the Organ in the United States

The History of the Organ in the United States
Author: Orpha Ochse
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1988-08-22
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780253204950

Immigration, wars, industrial growth, the availability of electricity, the popularity of orchestral music, and the invention of the phonograph and of the player piano all had a part in determining the course of American organ history.

The Origins of Organ Transplantation

The Origins of Organ Transplantation
Author: Thomas Schlich
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580463533

This book investigates a crucial-but forgotten-episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest clinical and experimental organ transplant surgeries. In so doing he lays open the historical origins of modern transplantation, offering a new and original analysis of its conceptual basis within a broader historical context. This first comprehensive account of the birth of modern transplant medicine examines how doctors and scientists between 1880 and 1930 developed the technology and rationale for performing surgical organ replacement within the epistemological and social context of experimental university medicine. The clinical application of organ replacement, however, met with formidable obstacles even as the procedure became more widely recognized. Schlich highlights various attempts to overcome these obstacles, including immunological explanations and new technologies of immune suppression, and documents the changes in surgical technique and research standards that led to the temporary abandonment of organ transplantation by the 1930s. Thomas Schlich is professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at McGill University.

The Evo-Devo Origin of the Nose, Anterior Skull Base and Midface

The Evo-Devo Origin of the Nose, Anterior Skull Base and Midface
Author: Roger Jankowski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-03-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2817804228

The phylontogenic theory proposes an original understanding of nose, sinus and midface formation and development by looking back in evolution for the first traces of the olfactory organ and then tracing its successive phyletic transformations to become part of the respiratory apparatus and finally the central point of human facial anatomy. Von Baer’s, Darwin’s, Haeckel’s, Garstang’s, Gould’s and Buss’ explorations of parallels between phylogeny and ontogeny help to trace the nose and midface story. The paradigm of existing parallels between ontogeny and phylogeny proves useful both in seeking to understand the holoprosencephalic spectrum of facial malformations (which represent radically different pathways of facial development after the life’s tape has been started to run again) and in formulating hypotheses on chordate to vertebrate evolution. The phylontogenic theory leads to new medical hypotheses on nose and sinus diseases and opens the field of evolution and development-based medicine.

The Organ

The Organ
Author: Douglas Earl Bush
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2006
Genre: Organ (Musical instrument)
ISBN: 0415941741

Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
Author: Leif Weatherby
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 634
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0823269426

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.

Pericyte Biology in Different Organs

Pericyte Biology in Different Organs
Author: Alexander Birbrair
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030110931

The present book is an attempt to describe the most recent developments in the area of pericyte biology which is one of the emergent hot topics in the field of molecular and cellular biology today. Here, we present a selected collection of thirteen detailed chapters on what we know so far about pericytes in distinct organs in physiological and pathological conditions. Further, it provides an update on the most novel functions attributed to these cells and will introduce a newer generation of researchers and scientists to the importance of these cells, ranging from their discovery in different organs through current state-of-the-science. It will be invaluable for both advanced cell biology students as well as researchers in cell biology, stem cells and vascular research. This volume explores pericytes' physiologic roles in different tissues, ranging from the pancreas, lungs and liver through skeletal muscle, gut, retina and more. Together with its companion volumes Pericyte Biology in Disease and Pericyte Biology – Novel Concepts, Pericyte Biology in Different Organs presents a comprehensive update on the latest information and most novel functions attributed to pericytes. To those researchers newer to this area, it will be useful to have the background information on these cells' unique history. It will be invaluable for both advanced cell biology students as well as researchers in cell biology, stem cells and researchers or clinicians involved with specific organs.