{"product_id":"pathological-realities-9780823280353","title":"Pathological Realities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528017813847,"sku":"9780823280353","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823280353.jpg?v=1731870087","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pathological-realities-9780823280353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}