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V&R unipress GmbH Die verfluchte Krankheit: Kulturgeschichte der
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V&R unipress GmbH Laureaten und Verlierer: Der Nobelpreis und die Hochschulmedizin in Deutschland, osterreich und der Schweiz
Book SynopsisFor exactly 120 years now, the most prestigious award for medical professionals has been awarded in Stockholm. The focus of this book is the history of the Nobel Prize in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With eleven contributions by researchers from Germany, Austria, Sweden, and Switzerland, this book highlights methodological and thematic approaches to interdisciplinary (Nobel) prize research. It examines the selection of prize-worthy ideas from the medical historical perspective and aims to promote a critical debate on the functions of scientific prizes.
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V&R unipress GmbH Psychotherapie als soziale Praxis
Book SynopsisNowadays, psychotherapy is usually understood as a part of medicine. In the past, however, mental health care was not interpreted in terms of medical treatment alone. Philosophers and priests, as well as all those who assumed responsibility in their respective communities, also cared for the salvation of the soul of those entrusted to their care. Despite all the new treatment possibilities and concepts that enormously enrich todays psychotherapy, this limited understanding also leads to an impoverishment, not only in theory but also in practice. Thomas Nölle attempts to place psychotherapy in a larger context than just the medical model, expanding its understanding against its socio-cultural history and current background. According to him, it is best understood as a social practice.
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V&R Unipress The Nursing Process as a Strategy for a
Book SynopsisHistorical Study on the Nursing Process: Tendencies of Deprofessionalization in Nursing
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V&R unipress Lebendig oder tot gesund oder krank
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V&R unipress Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State
Book SynopsisThe emergence of early modern military healthcare in Europe
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V&R unipress Der kranke Herrscher im Bild
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Traditional South Asian Medicine Tsam, Vol. 7
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Heilquellen in Der Deutschen Wissensliteratur Des
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Hans Von Gersdorffs Feldbuch Der Wundarznei:
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V&R Unipress Geschichte der Universitäts-Kinderklinik
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V&R Unipress Melancholie zwischen Attitüde und Diskurs:
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V&R unipress GmbH Medizin und Kulturwissenschaft.
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V&R unipress GmbH Frauengesundheit: Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden in
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V&R unipress GmbH Pflegewissenschaft und Pflegebildung.: Eine
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V&R unipress GmbH Bioethics, Care and Gender: Herausforderungen für
Book SynopsisBioethische Themen in einer Care- und Genderperspektive.
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V&R unipress GmbH Spiel am Werk: Eine
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V&R unipress GmbH Medizin und Kulturwissenschaft.: Historische,
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V&R unipress GmbH Menschenwurde und pflegerische Verantwortung: Zum
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V&R unipress GmbH Folter und Arztliche Verantwortung: Das
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V&R Unipress Forschungsbericht 20032008
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V&R unipress GmbH Medizin und Kulturwissenschaft.:
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V&R unipress GmbH Frauengesundheit: Ein Versorgungskonzept zur
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V&R unipress GmbH Medizin und Menschenrechte / Medicine and Human
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V&R unipress GmbH Freie Fundamente: Wissenschaftstheoretische
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Librum Publishers & Editors LLC Cagliostros Geheimrezepte: Magistralformeln Aus
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Hippokratische Schrift Praecepta: Kritische
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Das 'Debrecener Pflanzen- Und Tierbuch': Die
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Traditional South Asian Medicine Tsam, Vol. 9
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Tai Herbalism
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Editorial Sirio Medicina Tradicional China
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Ediciones de La Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha Se De cuerpos y almas en el judaísmo hispanomedieval
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Obelisco Corazon, Su Historia
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Museum Tusculanum Press Thomas Bartholin. The Anatomy House in Copenhagen
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Museum Tusculanum Press Mellem sundhed og sygdom: Om fortid, fremskridt
Book Synopsis"For a couple of years in this period, there was a true physician in Præstø as Jens Kofod practised here from 1792 until 1794 when he became a medical officer of health and Præstø had to be content with a surgeon as before.". This quote is taken from one of the principal works of the Danish history of medicine, published in 1873 by physician and medicine historian J V C Ingerslev, and it constitutes the starting point of Birgitte Rørbye's study of how the Danish medical profession of physicians through a couple of centuries have been able to construct an authoritative narrative of themselves as the 'true physicians' of the Danish public health service. By means of a narrative cultural study of writings on the history of medicine and other historical sources, Birgitte Rørbye uncovers the narrative of the 'true physicians' which has resulted in the exclusion of other occupational groups and schemes of things from the official and approved public health system on account of being 'alternative'. What is meant by the term 'true physician'? Is it a valid term with regards to varying times and societies? What was a 'true physician' in the years 1494, 1594, 1694, 1794, 1894, 1994? The answer depends both on the story and on who tells it. Birgitte Rørbye's new and different story caters for physicians, historians, cultural scholars and others interested in the history of medicine.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Living with the Black Death
Book SynopsisBetween 1347 and 1352 an unknown and deadly disease, only much later known as the Black Death, swept across Europe, leaving an estimated 30-50 % of the population dead. Contemporaries held various views as to what was the final, ultimate cause of this disaster. Many, probably most, thought it was God''s punishment for the sins of humankind, others thought it was basically a natural phenomenon caused by a fateful constellation of the heavenly bodies. Recurrent plague epidemics racked Europe from 1347 to the early 18th century. Populations were repeatedly struck with more or less disastrous consequences but every time people recovered and resumed their activities. Their experiences made them try various measures to protect themselves and prevent outbreaks or at least to minimize the consequences. In short they were Living with The Black Death. This book deals with plague, particularly in Northern Europe, in various aspects: epidemiology, pattern of dispersion, demography, social consequences, religious impact and representation in pictorial art and written sources.
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NIAS Press Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical
Book SynopsisAt face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia. Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. In their reliance on one or the other of the two traditions, to a large extent the Khmer people have been concerned to find efficient medical treatment that also adheres to social norms (not least the emphasis on the morality of social relations). This concern is also evident in the prevailing medical pluralism in Cambodia today. The authors trace the interaction (and lack thereof) between these two traditions from the French colonial period via the political upheavals of the 1970s through to the present day. The result is more than a medical anthropology; this is a key text that also makes a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Cambodian society at large and will be an important resource for development planners and aid workers in medical and related fields.Trade Review'This is a compelling, persuasive study of the indigenizationA" of global bio-political knowledge in Cambodia from colonial to modern times. Rigorously researched, balanced in interpretation and cautionary rather than idealistic, scholars and policymakers alike will derive much benefit from this insightful assessment of the human condition in Cambodia today. It is benchmark, interdisciplinary social science for showing us how social order and everyday survival are continually shaped and reshaped by successive models of governance.' - Laura Summers, University of HullTable of ContentsPreface vii Glossary xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Colonialism and Medicine in Indochina 18 3. French Medicine in Cambodia 43 4. The Khmer Rouge Medical Regime and Socialist Health 84 5. Indigenous Practitioners: Healers, Spirit Mediums and Magic Monks 129 6. Midwives and the Medicalization of Motherhood 169 7. Leprosy: Symbol and Social Suffering 203 8. Contemporary Healthcare Resources 233 9. Conclusion 270 Appendix 275 References 277 Index 297
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NIAS Press Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical
Book SynopsisAt face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using 'medicine' (in the sense of ideas, practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia. Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. In their reliance on one or the other of the two traditions, to a large extent the Khmer people have been concerned to find efficient medical treatment that also adheres to social norms (not least the emphasis on the morality of social relations). This concern is also evident in the prevailing medical pluralism in Cambodia today. The authors trace the interaction (and lack thereof) between these two traditions from the French colonial period via the political upheavals of the 1970s through to the present day. The result is more than a medical anthropology; this is a key text that also makes a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Cambodian society at large and will be an important resource for development planners and aid workers in medical and related fields.Trade Review'This is a compelling, persuasive study of the indigenizationA" of global bio-political knowledge in Cambodia from colonial to modern times. Rigorously researched, balanced in interpretation and cautionary rather than idealistic, scholars and policymakers alike will derive much benefit from this insightful assessment of the human condition in Cambodia today. It is benchmark, interdisciplinary social science for showing us how social order and everyday survival are continually shaped and reshaped by successive models of governance.' - Laura Summers, University of HullTable of ContentsPreface vii Glossary xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Colonialism and Medicine in Indochina 18 3. French Medicine in Cambodia 43 4. The Khmer Rouge Medical Regime and Socialist Health 84 5. Indigenous Practitioners: Healers, Spirit Mediums and Magic Monks 129 6. Midwives and the Medicalization of Motherhood 169 7. Leprosy: Symbol and Social Suffering 203 8. Contemporary Healthcare Resources 233 9. Conclusion 270 Appendix 275 References 277 Index 297
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Pontificio Istituto Biblico Medicine in the Biblical Background and Other
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Metodo Anatomo-Clinico Fra Meccanicismo Ed
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Scientiae in the History of Medicine
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Pythagorica Medica: Scienza E Sapienza Nella
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Malattie E Pandemie Nellantica Roma: Cicerone,
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Emergenza Covid: Niguarda Case History:
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Heart in Antiquity: A Journey Through Egypt,
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Brill Anatomy of the Medical Image: Knowledge
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault’s “birth of the clinic” and the institutionalised construction of a “medical gaze”; from “visual” archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Intoduction Axel Fliethmann and Christiane Weller PART 1: The Epistemology of Anatomy and Aesthetics 1 Rembrandt and the Dutch Cartesians: The..Medical Body and the Body of Christ in the Anatomy Lessons Jill Redner 2 Pathologies of Imagination and Medical Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe Axel Fliethmann 3 Re-Imagining the “Birthing Machine:” Art and Anatomy in Obstetric and Anatomical Models Made by Women Elizabeth Stephens 4 The Body in Motion: The Image of Man in Physical Education in Late Eighteenth-Century Schnepfenthal Heikki Lempa PART 2: Identity and Visual (De)Formation 5 Photography, Arrested Development, and the Facial Expression of Emotion Corinna Wagner 6 The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Medical Portraiture Joanna Madloch 7 Picturing Pathology: An Affirmative Reading of Lam Qua’s Medical Portraiture Carolyn Lau 8 “The Quickening:” Embryonic Stages in Visualising and Understanding Depression and Anxiety stef lenk PART 3: Power, Consumption and the Pathological Body 9 Capitalism without Desire: Economic Thinking and the Visualisation of the Biomedical Body ca. 1900 Claudia Stein 10 The Pitfalls of Utilitarianism: Capillary Images and Biopolitical Interventionism during the Weimar Republic Michael Hau 11 Sex Murder, Photographic Evidence, and the Weimar Cultural Imagination Birgit Lang 12 Imagining Madness: The Conceptualisation of Mental Illness in Psychiatric Art Collections Christiane Weller 13 Biomedia in the Flesh: Imagining Biomedical Interventions as Horror Barry Murnane Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
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Brill Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary:
Book SynopsisKnowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary is intended for historians of medicine and interpretation, and explores the dynamic between scholastic rhetoric and medical knowledge in ancient commentaries on a Mesopotamian Diagnostic Handbook. In line with commentators’ self-fashioning as experts of diverse disciplines, commentaries display intertextuality involving a variety of lexical, astronomical, religious, magic, and literary compositions, while employing patterns of argumentation that resist categorization within any single branch of knowledge. Commentators’ choices of topics and comments, however, sought to harmonize atypical language and ideas in the Handbook with conventional ways of perceiving and describing the sick body in therapeutic recipes. Scholastic rhetoric—supposedly unfettered to any discipline—served in fact as a pretext for affirming current forms of medical knowledge.Trade Review"The two-volume work of John Z. Wee is a welcome new contribution to the discussion of Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform commentaries—an at times complex and, to readers unaware of its intricacies, often opaque textual genre, mainly known from the late time of Cuneiform Culture. (...) The first volume addresses not only Assyriologists but also scholars interested in the history of medicine and the history of interpretation and science. The study presented here includes a great many detailed discussions and presentations of interrelated issues within Mesopotamian commentary literature particularly in relation to the DH and its structure, as well as the context of these commentaries and their arguments in respect to their use and institutional background. Volume two provides the relevant data, presenting a collective edition of all commentaries on the DH so far known. This offers the particular advantage of making all relevant data accessible in a printed, citable form together with detailed philological commentaries and discussions on difficult or peculiar words and phrases." - Eric Schmidtchen, Université de Genève, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVIII N° 3-4 (2021). "In short, John Wee’s Knowledge and Rhetorical in Medical Commentary in an erudite and refreshing analysis of Sa-gig and its commentaries. Although a highly specialized subject, some of his broader observations about serialization, canonization, textual sources of authority, and embedded variants may be helpful for folks in religious studies thinking about so-called canon, interpretive practices and textual sources of authority, and the boundaries in the ancient world of what we often designate science and literature." - William Brown, in The Biblical Review, 2021.Table of ContentsI. Knowledge and Rhetoric in Medical Commentary Preface Acknowledgements Contents (Two Volumes) List of Figures Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations Format and Translation Issues Glossary I.1 Introduction to the Sa-gig Commentaries I.1.1 The Situatedness of Commentaries I.1.2 The Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig and Its Serialization I.1.3 Serialized Variants and Their Interpretation I.1.4 The Presentation of Alternatives in Text Series and Commentaries Chapter Two: Commentary and Scholastic Rhetoric I.2.1 Commentary Designations and Scribal Actors I.2.1.1 “Glossary” (ṣâtu) I.2.1.2 “Oral Lore” (šūt pî) I.2.1.3 “Readings” (malsûtu) I.2.1.4 “Questionings” (mašʾaltu) I.2.1.5 “From the Mouth of the Ummânu-scholar” (ša pî ummâni) I.2.1.6 Patterns of Commentary Designations I.2.2 Textual Sources of Authority I.2.2.1 Lexical Text Citations I.2.2.2 Narratival Intertextuality I.2.2 Forms of Argumentation I.2.3.1 Two-Member Arguments I.2.3.2 Multiple Member Arguments I.2.3.3 Single Member Arguments I.2.4 Exemplar and License in Scholastic Hermeneutics Chapter Three: Commentary and Medical Knowledge I.3.1 Epistemic Progression in Medical Practice and Texts I.3.1.1 The Therapeutic Tradition I.3.1.2 Structuring the Diagnostic Handbook I.3.2 Harmonizing Texts and Phenomena I.3.2.1 Knowledge Assumptions in Topic Choice I.3.2.2 The Pericope and Omissions from Topics I.3.2.3 Comment Choice and Argument as Pretext I.3.1 Habits of Use and the Cuneiform Handbook I.4 Conclusion: Scholasticism and the Boundaries for Interpretation Appendix One: Embedded Variants in the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig Appendix Two: Transliterations of Medical Texts Bibliography Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes) II. Mesopotamian Commentaries on the Diagnostic Handbook Sa-gig Preface Acknowledgements Contents (Two Volumes) Medical Text Labels and Abbreviations Format and Translation Issues Chapter One: Edition of the Sa-gig Commentaries II.1.1 Commentary Sa-gig 1A II.1.2 Commentary Sa-gig 1B II.1.3 Commentary Sa-gig 1C II.1.4 Commentary Sa-gig 1D II.1.5 Commentary Sa-gig 1–3 II.1.6 Commentary Sa-gig 3A II.1.7 Commentary Sa-gig 3B II.1.8 Commentary Sa-gig 3C II.1.9 Commentary Sa-gig 4A II.1.10 Commentary Sa-gig 4B II.1.11 Commentary Sa-gig 4C II.1.12 Commentary Sa-gig 5 II.1.13 Commentary Sa-gig 7A II.1.14 Commentary Sa-gig 7B II.1.15 Commentary Sa-gig 7Ca II.1.16 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cb II.1.17 Commentary Sa-gig 7Cc (?) II.1.18 Commentary Sa-gig 10 & 11 II.1.19 Commentary Sa-gig 13+ II.1.20 Commentary Sa-gig 14 II.1.21 Commentary Sa-gig 18 II.1.22 Commentary Sa-gig 19 II.1.23 Commentary Sa-gig 21 & 22a II.1.24 Commentary Sa-gig 23 II.1.25 Commentary Sa-gig 29 II.1.26 Commentary Sa-gig 34 II.1.27 Commentary Sa-gig 36 II.1.28 Commentary Sa-gig 39 II.1.29 Commentary Sa-gig 40A II.1.30 Commentary Sa-gig 40B Chapter Two: Commentary Notations II.2.1 Disjunction Sign II.2.2 “The Case of / Where” (ša) II.2.3 “Which It Said” (ša iqbû) II.2.4 “As in” (libbû) II.2.5 “Complement to” (IGI / pāni) II.2.6 “(Points) to” (ana) II.2.7 “The Usual (Meaning)” (kayyān) II.2.8 Other Notations Photographs Bibliography Index of Excerpts (Two Volumes)
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Collected Letters of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek,
Book SynopsisThis volume (the 1st of a series of 19) contains 21 letters. Every volume in the series contains the texts in the original Dutch and an English translation.
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