History of medicine Books
Rutgers University Press Exhibiting Health: Public Health Displays in the
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, public health reformers approached the task of ameliorating unsanitary conditions and preventing epidemic diseases with optimism. Using exhibits, they believed they could make systemic issues visual to masses of people. Embedded within these visual displays were messages about individual action. In some cases, this meant changing hygienic practices. In other situations, this meant taking up action to inform public policy. Reformers and officials hoped that exhibits would energize America's populace to invest in protecting the public's health. Exhibiting Health is an analysis of the logic of the production and the consumption of this technique for popular public health education between 1900 and 1930. It examines the power and limits of using visual displays to support public health initiatives.Trade Review"Today, at a time when the visual seems to dominate in education and entertainment, Koslow demonstrates that the visual has a long, powerful history in the realm of public health. Koslow skillfully draws the reader into a very compelling story, indeed a page-turner, while weaving in significant analysis." -- Susan L. Smith * author of Toxic Exposures *"Jennifer Koslow draws attention to the overlooked history of public health exhibitions, demonstrating the fascinating role of railways, models, dioramas, and performances in delivering health advice to hundreds of thousands of Americans. As Exhibiting Health shows, in the first half of the twentieth century, even without proof of their impact on the health of individuals, such activities played a key role in promoting the value of public health programs and expertise." -- Manon Parry * author of Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning *New Books Network - New Books in Medicine interview with Jennifer Lisa Koslow https://newbooksnetwork.com/jennifer-lisa-koslow-exhibiting-health-public-health-displays-in-the-progressive-era-rutgers-up-2020/ * New Books Network - New Books in Medicine *"The strength of Koslow’s book remains on the close focus on individual exhibitions in the ways they were reviewed, physically constructed, dispersed and received. Her careful research using primary resources in state libraries, archives and institutional collections enables a much richer and detailed narrative of these specific exhibition events in fleshing out important details missing in more generalised accounts. It is a book well worth the attention of historians, social scientists and the health community." * Social History of Medicine *"Introduces readers to a short-lived but vibrant aspect of progressive reform: the public health exhibit [and] reveals that reformers truly believed in the power of the public health exhibit: the passion with which they constructed exhibitions, the personal and philanthropic investments they made, and their ongoing 'faith in the value of the visual' all bear witness to their general conviction that such displays improved American lives." * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *“The strength of Koslow’s book remains on the close focus on individual exhibitions in the ways they were reviewed, physically constructed, dispersed and received. Her careful research using primary resources in state libraries, archives and institutional collections enables a much richer and detailed narrative of these specific exhibition events in fleshing out important details missing in more generalized accounts. It is a book well worth the attention of historians, social scientists and the health community.” -- Julie K. Brown * Social History of Medicine *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Developing Exhibition as a Tool for Popular Education 2. The Art of Exhibit Making 3. Health Trains: An Experiment in Traveling Exhibits 4. Controversial Exhibits Conclusion Acknowledgements Index
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Rutgers University Press False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health
Book SynopsisSince its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society. Trade Review"Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature." — Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsContents Foreword: Can there be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? by Susan Reverby and Julie A. Fairman Preface 1 Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor: Care, Cleanliness and Character 2 Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses and the Sick Poor 3 The Hope and Promise of Public Health 4 Preserving the Treasures of their Tradition: The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service 5 The Decline of Public Health Nursing: Economical and Pragmatic, but No Longer Necessary 6 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health
Book SynopsisSince its initial publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing, Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Public Health Nursing remains the definitive work on the creation, work, successes, and failures of public health nursing in the United States. False Dawn explores and answers the provocative question: why did a movement that became a significant vehicle for the delivery of comprehensive health care to individuals and families fail to reach its potential? Through carefully researched chapters, Wilkerson details what she herself called the “rise and fall” narrative of public health nursing: rising to great heights in its patients' homes in the struggle to control infectious diseases, assimilate immigrants, and tame urban areas -- only to flounder during the later growth of hospitals, significant immigration restrictions, and the emergence of chronic diseases as endemic in American society. Trade Review"Karen Buhler Wilkerson’s False Dawn has never been surpassed as the authoritative text on the history of public health nursing in the United States. This new edition, with a new introduction by two of the leading historians of nursing and with an updated bibliography, fills a critical gap in this literature." — Rima D. Apple, Vilas Life Cycle Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsContents Foreword: Can there be a New Dawn for Public Health Nursing? by Susan Reverby and Julie A. Fairman Preface 1 Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor: Care, Cleanliness and Character 2 Creating Their Own Domain: Ladies, Nurses and the Sick Poor 3 The Hope and Promise of Public Health 4 Preserving the Treasures of their Tradition: The Founding of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and the Red Cross Rural Nursing Service 5 The Decline of Public Health Nursing: Economical and Pragmatic, but No Longer Necessary 6 Conclusion Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£999.99
Rutgers University Press An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life. Trade Review"The book will be of clear interest to those interested in phrenology, but it will also be relevant to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment. One reason is Thompson's excellent demonstration of phrenology's reliance on the prison, which raises larger questions about criminology's relationship with confinement....An Organ of Murder will prove interesting and helpful to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment." — Punishment & Society Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast interview with Courtney Thompson— Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast "An Organ of Murder is a fascinating, well-written history of phrenology....Recommended."— Choice "For a compelling introduction to what a new generation of scholars is discovering about the perennially interesting topic of phrenology, Courtney E. Thompson’s An Organ of Murder comes highly recommended. This sophisticated, well-written history explores an aspect of phrenology that deserves more attention: its influence on both elite and popular conceptions of criminality....An Organ of Murder should find an appreciative readership not only among historians of science and medicine but also scholars interested in the new carceral history."— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Scienes "This short but informative book will appeal to anyone with an interest in phrenology, criminology, or the histories of psychiatry, psychology, and related fields, especially in nineteenth-century America. It fills a void, is well researched, and is written in an engaging and captivating way."— Journal of the History of Neurosciences An Organ of Murder? - BYU Radio "Constant Wonder" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— BYU Radio, "Constant Wonder" "Unlike many existing studies of phrenology, which tend to focus on the science’s European fortunes, Thompson takes on the nineteenth-century United States, particularly the period from 1830 to 1860. The book situates phrenology in the history of American criminal justice and the emerging conceptualization of criminality as an innate biological predisposition....Thompson adds a new, distinctively legal note to recent histories of phrenological science."— New Rambler Review "This book provides much needed insight into the confluence of phrenology, criminal justice, and the attempts by Americans to better explain, understand, and even correct criminal behavior in the nineteenth century and beyond."— Law and History Review "In this compelling book, Courtney Thompson takes readers to the prisons, courtrooms, and streets of antebellum cities to expose just how phrenology claimed authority on criminality. Rich in detail and analysis, An Organ of Murder vividly illustrates the long history of making criminal minds and bodies into objects of medical and scientific inquiry." — Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University "Courtney Thompson provocatively measures the face, head, and soul of American phrenology and invites us to a discovery of the historical origins of scientific criminology."— Stephen Casper, Clarkson University "Professor Thompson’s book does what it does quite well. It is an important contribution to the literature. And we might expect that it will be a guide to contemporary legal theory as well. It surely should be."— Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Vividly narrated with great wit and insight, An Organ of Murder constitutes an important contribution to the history of criminology as well as phrenology, with important implications for the practice of law and the human sciences... Thompson succeeds brilliantly. An Organ of Murder deserves a wide readership among historians and legal scholars, who will readily see the importance of following her leads."— Susanna L. Blumenthal, Isis Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Sciences of the Mind forum held in partnership with American Philosophical Society: Courtney Thompson and Alicia Puglionesi in discussion — Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Sciences of the Mind "New Books Network - New Books in Medicine" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— New Books Network - New Books in Medicine "Thompson presents an impressively researched and appealingly structured argument for the importance of crime and punishment to phrenology, that problematic frontrunner of so many human and social sciences."— Journal of the History of the Behavioral ScienceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Through a Mirror, Darkly 1 Origins and Organs 2 Transatlantic Societies and Skulls 3 Phrenology on Trial 4 The Prison as Laboratory 5 Policing the Self and the Stranger 6 A Victory for Phrenology? Epilogue Phrenological Futures Notes Bibliography Inde
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Rutgers University Press The Sounds of Furious Living: Everyday
Book Synopsis Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious “gay cancer” first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would come to be called AIDS changed the world in innumerable ways. It also gave rise to one of the late twentieth century’s largest health-based empowerment movements. Scholars across diverse traditions have documented the rise of the AIDS activist movement, chronicling the impassioned echoes of protestors who took to the streets to demand “drugs into bodies.” And yet not all activism creates echoes. Included among the ranks of 1980s and 1990s-era AIDS activists were individuals whose expressions of empowerment differed markedly from those demanding open access to mainstream pharmaceutical agents. Largely forgotten today, this activist tradition was comprised of individuals who embraced unorthodox approaches for conceptualizing and treating their condition. Rejecting biomedical expertise, they shared alternative clinical paradigms, created underground networks for distributing unorthodox nostrums, and endorsed etiological models that challenged the association between HIV and AIDS. The theatre of their protests was not the streets of New York City’s Greenwich Village but rather their bodies. And their language was not the riotous chants of public demonstration but the often-invisible embrace of contrarian systems for defining and treating their disease. The Sounds of Furious Living seeks to understand the AIDS activist tradition, identifying the historical currents out of which it arose. Embracing a patient-centered, social historical lens, it traces historic shifts in popular understanding of health and perceptions of biomedicine through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to explain the lasting appeal of unorthodox health activism into the modern era. In asking how unorthodox health activism flourished during the twentieth century’s last major pandemic, Kelly also seeks to inform our understanding of resistance to biomedical authority in the setting of the twenty-first century’s first major pandemic: COVID-19. As a deeply researched portrait of distrust and disenchantment, The Sounds of Furious Living helps explain the persistence of movements that challenge biomedicine’s authority well into a century marked by biomedical innovation, while simultaneously posing important questions regarding the meaning and metrics of patient empowerment in clinical practice.Trade Review“The Sounds of Furious Living fits within the history of 'unorthodox' medicine, but in a more nuanced and theoretical way, providing new insight into this tradition that never really went away—there is nothing like this out there now. Matthew Kelly has done an impressive job.” -- Susan Reverby * author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Introduction: Acknowledging the Everyday Part I: The Soils of Unorthodoxy: Irregular and Alternative Medicine in U.S. History 1 Situating Unorthodox AIDS Activism within the History of Medicine in the United States 2 A Broken Model: Twentieth-Century Transformations in the Social Constructions of Health and Disease 3 A Broken Trust: The Changing Character of Health Care Part II: The Seeds of Unorthodoxy: The Emergence of Unorthodox AIDS Activism 4 Everyday Unorthodoxies and the People with AIDS Coalition (PWAC) 5 Patient, Heal Thyself: The History of Health Education AIDS Liaison (HEAL) Conclusion: Listening to and Learning from the Sounds of Furious Living Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Les Belles Lettres Hippocrate: Tome II, 3e Partie: La Maladie Sacree
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Les Belles Lettres Galien, Oeuvres: Tome VI: Theriaque a Pison
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£101.12
Les Belles Lettres Galien, Oeuvres. Tome X: Theriaque a Pamphilianos
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£999.99
Les Belles Lettres de Re Anatomica Libri XV: Anatomia
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£247.00
Les Belles Lettres Les Troubles Psychiques Selon Galien: Etude d'Un
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Classiques Garnier Medecine Et Rhetorique a la Renaissance: Le Cas
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Classiques Garnier de la Sante Des Gens de Lettres
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£32.00
Classiques Garnier Histoire Notable de la Rage Des Loups,
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Brepols N.V. Healthcare in Early Medieval Northern Italy: More
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Brepols N.V. Andreas Vesalius and the 'Fabrica' in the Age of
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Brepols N.V. Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the
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Academie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Histoire de la tradition et de lédition des textes médicaux grecs. VIIIe colloque international sur lecdotique des textes médicaux grecs
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Bohlau Verlag Das Spital in der Frühen Neuzeit: Eine
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£119.11
Bohlau Verlag Die Josephs - Akademie im Wiener Josephinum: Die
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Bohlau Verlag Die medizinische Fakultät der Universität
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Bohlau Verlag Katastrophe als Beruf: Die bundesdeutsche
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War, the West German medical profession was confronted with the unprecedented threat scenario of nuclear mass destruction. Against this background, Jochen Molitor analyzes the ways of thinking and action patterns of medical experts in preparation for an emergency, taking into account military doctors as well as civilians, leading chamber officials as well as the medical peace movement. The focus of the presentation is the genesis of disaster medicine. Their development from the medical service preparation for a feared nuclear war to the emergency medical response to the new damage scenarios of the risk society provides not only multiple insights into the nature of the medical profession, but also about the history of threats and fear in the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Harrassowitz Public Health and Colonialism: The Case of German
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Harrassowitz Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical
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£102.60
Harrassowitz Die Magischen Texte Von Papyrus Nr. 1826 Der
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Harrassowitz Bannlosung (Nam-Erim-Bur-Ru-Da): Die Therapie Eines Auf Eidliche Falschaussage Zuruckgefuhrten Leidens
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Harrassowitz Haut Und Haar: Politische Und Soziale Bedeutungen
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Familienkorrespondenz: Februar 1839 Bis April
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Patients and Social Practice of Psychiatric
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Im Angesicht Der 'Pestilenz': Seuchen in
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Religiose Heiler Im Medizinischen Pluralismus in
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Die 'Ephemeris' Des Ulmer Arztes Johann Franc
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£63.00
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Mensch, Dass Du Das Kannst: Das Hospizliche
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Ludwig Heilmeyer: Eine Politische Biographie
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Pathologen ALS Verfolgte Des Nationalsozialismus:
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Der Medizinische Orient: Wien Und Die Begegnung
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Weg Vom Fenster: Die Staublunge Der Ruhrbergleute
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£102.06
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Vertonungen Des Hippokratischen Eides
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Weisskittel Und Braunhemd: Der Gottinger
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen Und Der
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Contergan: Hintergrunde Und Folgen Eines
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Katharsis in Kaiserzeit Und Spatantike:
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Heilung mit Defekt: Psychiatrische Praxis an den
Book SynopsisAls "Heilung mit Defekt" bezeichnete Pfarrer Dauzenberg 1863 den Entlassungsstatus von Johanna Elisabeth R. aus der renommierten Irren-Heilanstalt Siegburg bei Bonn. Was aber hieß es im 19. Jahrhundert, ein "heilbarer", was, ein "unheilbarer" Fall zu sein? Wie kam es bei den Anstaltspatienten zur Aufnahme, wie wurden die Betroffenen in den Institutionen behandelt und was passierte nach ihrer Entlassung? Diesen Fragen nähert sich die Arbeit aus verschiedenen Perspektiven: aus der Sicht der Ärzte, der Geistlichen, der Patienten und ihrer Angehörigen.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Politik und Psychiatrie: Die staatliche
Book SynopsisText in German. The "war neurosis" became one of the metaphors of the First World War. A fundamental debate broke out in the Weimar Republic about the compensation for mental disorders. Stephanie Neuner focuses on this conflict-ridden discourse in which political interests, medical interpretation patterns, legal models of thought and personal perceptions collide. She describes the disputes about the recognition of war-related mental disorders as illness and the resulting pension entitlement. The subjective experiences and personal résumés of those affected show how long the mental health impaired the everyday life and personal self-image of the war victims.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Immunisierte Gesellschaft: Impfen in Deutschland
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Kopf oder Bauch?: Zur Biologie der Entscheidung
Book SynopsisWhy do people write a warning on cigarette packs that smoking can be fatal? Because we don't trust individuals to always make the decision that the general public thinks is the right one. To answer the question "What should I do?", People need motivational aids. They are controlled by a complex set of rules, laws and moral requirements to protect individuals from "wrong" decisions. This danger is obviously classified as great; unlike what it suggests based on rational ethics, even ethical decisions fit fully into an economic system. Economics is to be understood as the organization of our life needs: Our brain tries to simplify everything as possible and to use its resources sparingly. It is committed to an economy of thought. The authors of the book discuss how our picture of economy, ethics, morality and decision changes if we take the results of recent brain research seriously.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Das Fremde Im 'deutschen' Tempel Der
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Regenzeiten, Feuchtgebiete, Korpersafte: Das
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£103.55
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Ernst Fuchs Und Die Weltgeltung Der Wiener
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