This wide-ranging and imaginative book examines the social and scientific role of the French Academy of Medicine from its creation in 1820 to the outbreak of the Second World War. The first chapters focus on the institution and its activities, including the evaluation of medical innovations and the cultivation of professional memory through eulogies and institutional art. Weisz argues that the Academy was gradually transformed from a low-status public institution that was central to French medical science in the nineteenth century to an "establishment" institution largely irrelevant to...
This wide-ranging and imaginative book examines the social and scientific role of the French Academy of Medicine from its creation in 1820 to the outb...
This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic teaching and research in the 19th century into the dominant mode of medical practice by the middle of the 20th. Taking account of the parallels and differences in national developments, the book shows...
This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in histor...
Culled from the proceedings of 'La quantification dans les sciences medicales et de la sante: perspective historique' held at the Musee Claude-Bernard in France in 2002, this title moves beyond the usual emphasis on public health and clinical medicine to include the central role of numbers in laboratory work and medical instrumentation.
Culled from the proceedings of 'La quantification dans les sciences medicales et de la sante: perspective historique' held at the Musee Claude-Bernard...
Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical schools seem increasingly to be filling rare positions in the humanities and social sciences with ethicists. Hardly a day passes without some media scrutiny of one or another ethical dilemma resulting from our new-found ability to transform the natural conditions of life. Although bioethics is a self-consciously interdisciplinary field, it has not attracted the collaboration of many social scientists. In fact, social scientists who specialize in the...
Medical or hio- ethics has in recent years been a growth industry. Journals, Centers and Associations devoted to the subject proliferate. Medical scho...
Mark Weber, after retiring for the night, was transported in time to Jerusalem at the time of the final days of Christ. He experienced the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, on what is now known as Palm Sunday. In a very brief stay, he was given the ability to read and speak all languages. Returning to his own bed, he was in shock when he awoke and realized that it had not been a dream. He met and joined forces with two others who had a parallel experience. They were the only apparent opposition to an evil super genius, who had charmed most people, and who was well along in his intent to be their...
Mark Weber, after retiring for the night, was transported in time to Jerusalem at the time of the final days of Christ. He experienced the entry of Je...
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's 'survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with proper nutrition is the essential foundation of human development.' Drawing from many disciplines - history, anthropology, demography, art history, disability studies, and sociology - and across a broad geography, "Healing the World's Children" sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.The essays range from historical overviews and...
In 1990, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child declared that children's 'survival, protection, growth and development in good health and with p...
A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political, and cultural dimensions of the efforts to preserve and protect the lives of our most vulnerable citizens.
A collection of essays, historical and contemporary, on the health and healing of children around the world. It sheds light on the medical, political,...
The papers in this volume represent the first attempt at a coherent analysis of the institutional structure of French science and technology in the nineteenth century. They treat both research and education and cover the main developments in the period from the establishment of the Napoleonic University in 1808 to the outbreak of the First World War. The papers reflect the intense interest in the social history of French science since the Revolution and convey a vivid impression of different modes of thought in a particularly active field of research. The contributions stress and develop more...
The papers in this volume represent the first attempt at a coherent analysis of the institutional structure of French science and technology in the ni...
Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of -chronic disease- had limited significance. Even lingering diseases like tuberculosis, a leading cause of mortality, did not inspire dedicated public health activities until the later decades of the nineteenth century, when it became understood as a treatable infectious disease. Historian of medicine George Weisz analyzes why the idea of chronic disease assumed critical importance in the twentieth century and how it acquired new meaning as one of the most serious...
Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their doctors since ancient times, but until recently the concept of -chronic disease- h...
