Invasion of the Body

Invasion of the Body
Author: Nicholas L. Tilney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2011-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674062280

A pioneering organ transplant surgeon narrates in gripping detail the revolutions that have transformed modern surgery, and the turmoil in medical education and health care reform as new capacities to prolong life and restore health run headlong into unsustainable costs. Tilney’s stage is the famous Boston teaching hospital, Brigham and Women's.

Transplant

Transplant
Author: Nicholas L. Tilney
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0300099630

Drawing on firsthand experience, a pioneer in organ transplantation discussesthe amazing advances in the field. 53 illustrations.

Information and Empire

Information and Empire
Author: Simon Franklin
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 178374376X

From the mid-sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Russia was transformed from a moderate-sized, land-locked principality into the largest empire on earth. How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850 brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre-modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of information and communications.

A Perfectly Striking Departure

A Perfectly Striking Departure
Author: Nicholas L. Tilney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This book follows the growth of the teaching arm of Harvard Medical School. It looks at the different surgeons-in-chiefs, as well as changes in academic departments.

Being Buryat

Being Buryat
Author: Melissa Chakars
Publisher: ProQuest
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2008
Genre: Buriats
ISBN: 9780549995890

This dissertation argues that the Buryats, a Mongolian people who live around Lake Baikal in Siberia, rather than simply being victims of top down policies from Moscow that eroded their language and culture, instead participated and gave their creative energy to the Soviet project of modernization during the decades following World War II. This work explores educational, media-related, and cultural institutions, which were increasingly staffed and directed by a large class of educated professional Buryats. These institutions were crucial to carrying out Soviet modernizing policies. They created a new culture for Buryat society that produced new lived experiences quite different than those of previous generations. Increased social mobility, ubiquitous messages promoting Soviet progress, and practical choices by the Buryat elite created a situation where many Buryats were not alienated by the Soviet system in a way that some other Soviet peoples were. Instead, widespread upward social mobility that led to large scale participation in local institutions, including local government, developed into a culture of progress in Buryatia that allowed the Buryats to make Soviet modernization work for them.

The Question Concerning Technology in China

The Question Concerning Technology in China
Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2016-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0995455007

A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.

A Precocious Autobiography

A Precocious Autobiography
Author: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
Publisher: London : Collins and Harvill Press
Total Pages: 138
Release: 1963
Genre: Authors, Russian
ISBN:

His life and philosophy.

Picturing Russia

Picturing Russia
Author: Valerie Ann Kivelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300119615

What can Russian images and objects—a tsar’s crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.

Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950–1300

Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950–1300
Author: Simon Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002-08-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139434543

This book provides a thorough survey and analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.

The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825

The Modernisation of Russia, 1676-1825
Author: Simon Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999-07-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521379618

This is the first book to place Russia's 'long' eighteenth century squarely in its European context. The conceptual framework is set out in an opening critique of modernisation which, while rejecting its linear implications, maintains its focus on the relationship between government, economy and society. Following a chronological introduction, a series of thematic chapters (covering topics such as finance and taxation, society, government and politics, culture, ideology, and economy) emphasise the ways in which Russia's international ambitions as an emerging great power provoked administrative and fiscal reforms with wide-ranging (and often unanticipated) social consequences. This thematic analysis allows Simon Dixon to demonstrate that the more the tsars tried to modernise their state, the more backward their empire became. A chronology and critical bibliography are also provided to allow students to discover more about this colourful period of Russian history.