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1 online resource (vi, 287 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
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Clio medica,
0045-7183 ;
48
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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 48.
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Mikuláš Teich : a biographical sketch -- Business history : Cinderella, Prince Charming or ugly sister? / Terry Gourvish -- Darwin's revolution / Robert Proctor -- The different faces of science : is genetics a social construct? / Benno Müller-Hill -- Bare heads against red hats : a portrait of Paracelsus / Charles Webster -- Science-education and culture, ideas and concepts of German scientists in the 19th century / Dietrich von Engelhardt -- Thomas George Hodgkins (1803-92) and the future of research at the Royal Institute (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) / W.H. Brock -- Biology as technology / Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers -- From the "originary phenomenon" to the "system of pelagic fishery" : Johannes Müller (1801-1858) and the relation between physiology and philosophy / Hans-Jörg Rheinberger -- A male mind in a female body : sexology, homosexuality and the woman question in Germany, 1869-1914 / Katharina Rowold -- The naturalists tradition : a nature history / Paul Farber -- Medicine, the body, and the botanical metaphor in erotica / Julie Peakman -- Biology of liberation : some historical aspects of "proletarian race hygienics" / Reinhard Mocek -- Credit and resistance : Eijman and the transformation of beri-beri into a vitamin deficiency disease / Harmke Kamminga -- Gout and quackery, or, Banks and mountebanks / Roy Porter -- Notes on contributors -- Bibliography of Mikulʹas Teich. |
| Summary |
For the last half century, Mikuláš Teich has made many eminent contributions to the histories of science, technology, medicine and society. His essentially Marxist historiographical stance has resisted the notion that science is an autonomous entity, and has instead stressed the interplay of the economic, the social and the scientific forces in history. At the same time, particularly in studies of biochemistry, he has emphasized the significance of the role of science and technology in modern economic change. In a career divided between Czechoslovakia and the UK, he has always been highly internationalist in his historical outlooks, combining what is valuable in Contentinal and British methods. This volume is to honour him on his eightieth birthday. Examining European developments since the sixteenth century, the essays, many by old friends and colleagues, cluster around themes close to his own personal scholarship and related to volumes which he has edited. The book is divided into sections on Questions of History; Scientific Lives; Disciplines; Natural History, and Science and Disease. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Teich, Mikuláš.
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Teich, Mikuláš. |
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Teich, Milulʹas̆, 1918- |
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Teich, Mikuláš. |
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Life sciences -- Social aspects -- History.
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Life sciences -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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Life sciences. |
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects -- History.
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- History.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Festschriften.
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Festschrift.
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Essays.
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Festschrift.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Festschriften.
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Bayertz, Kurt.
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Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: From physico-theology to bio-technology. Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998 9042004916 9789042004917 (OCoLC)41299370 |
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9789004418578 |
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9004418571 |
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9789042004917 |
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9042004916 |
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9042005017 |
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9789042005013 |
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