{"product_id":"pathological-realities-essays-on-disease-experiments-and-history-hardback-9780823280346","title":"Pathological Realities; Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (Hardback) 9780823280346","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePathological Realities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Disease, Experiments, and History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMirko Grmek (Author), Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Edited and translated by), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823280346\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from Yugoslavia to the academic culture of post-war France placed him at the crossroads of different intellectual trends and made him an influential figure during the second half of the twentieth century. Yet, scholars have rarely attempted to articulate his distinctive vision of the history of science and medicine with all its tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. This volume brings together and publishes for the first time in English a range of Grmek's writings, providing a portrait of his entire career as a historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure. \u003ci\u003ePathological Realities\u003c\/i\u003e pieces together Grmek's scholarship that reveals the interconnections of diseases, societies, and medical theories.\u003cbr\u003e Straddling the sciences and the humanities, Grmek crafted significant new concepts and methods to engage with contemporary social problems such as wars, genocides and pandemics. Uniting some major strands of his published work that are still dispersed or simply unknown, this volume covers the deep epistemological changes in historical conceptions of disease as well as major advances within the life sciences and their historiography. Opening with a classic essay – \"Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases,\" this volume introduces Grmek's notions of \"pathocenosis\" and \"emerging infections,\" illustrating them with historical and contemporary cases. \u003ci\u003ePathological Realities\u003c\/i\u003e also showcases Grmek's pioneering approach to the history of science and medicine using laboratory notebooks as well as his original work on biological thought and the role of ideologies and myths in the history of science. The essays assembled here reveal Grmek's significant influence and continued relevance for current research in the history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science studies, and the philosophy of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eEditor and Translator's Note\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Foreword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (\u003ci\u003eMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntroduction: Mirko Grmek's Investigative Pathway\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (\u003ci\u003eUniversité Laval, Québec\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pathocenosis: Diseases in History\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e1. Preliminaries to the Historical Study of Diseases \u003cbr\u003e 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease\u003cbr\u003e 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eExperiments and Concepts in Life Sciences\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e4. First Steps in Claude Bernard's Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHistory of Science: the Laboratory of Epistemology\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e7. A Plea for freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMemoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e8. A Memoricide\u003cbr\u003e 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580329652504,"sku":"9780823280346","price":83.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pathological-realities-essays-on-disease-experiments-and-history-hardback-9780823280346","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}