Pathological realities
essays on disease, experiments, and history
Bände/Inhalt:
- Foreword / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger - Editor and Translator's Note - Introduction: Mirko Grmek's Investigative Pathway / Pierre-Olivier Méthot - 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 Viruses - EXPERIMENTS 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 Myth - MEMORICIDE: WAR AND THE ERADICATION OF CULTURAL MEMORY - 8. A Memoricide - 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens - Bibliography - Index
- 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.