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PMID: 19919734 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Introduction.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The Old-New Tradition.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919738 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Physiologist-Physicists: Foundation of the Discipline.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919739 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
A Viennese Prelude: Sechenov's Research at Ludwig's Laboratory.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919740 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Berlin Wins over Paris and Vienna: Botkin's View on European Clinics.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919741 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'Alt Heidelberg, du feine...'Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919742 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Military Medical Education: The Aftermath of the Crimean War.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919743 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The Winds of Change: Reformation of the Medico-Surgical Academy.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919744 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The 'Medico-Chemical Academy': Zinin's Laboratory.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919745 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Synthesis and Symphonies: Borodin's Laboratory.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919746 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'Scientific Medicine': Botkin's Teaching Clinic and Laboratory.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919747 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The New Discipline of Russian Physiology: Sechenov's Laboratory.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919748 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
A Few Steps Further: The Operation of the Physiological Laboratory under Cyon.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919749 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Russian Universities in the Sea of Change, 1870-1886.Email this article to a colleague.
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PMID: 19919750 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Sechenov at Novorossiisk University: New Laboratory, New Challenges.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
A Simple Model: Transition from Blood-Gas Research to Studies on Salt Solutions.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Sechenov at St Petersburg: 'Galvanic studies' - A Final Proof.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The Context to Sechenov's Study of Solution: The Mendeleev-Ostwald Debate on the Theory of Solutions.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The Universal Law: Expectations and Disappointments.Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
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Source: Clio Medica - November 20, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kichigina G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
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Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00048-009-0358-x
Journal NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und MedizinOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978
Journal Volume Volume 17
Journal Issue Volume 17, Number 4 / November, 2009 (Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine)
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals
Der Verdacht der SimulationEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Suspicion of Simulation. A Psychiatric Case History between Appropriation and Disciplinary Action at the End of the 19th
Century.
This case history explores how the question of agency was dealt with historically in two developing, normative orders of deviant
behaviour. Examining the institutional career of the supposed adulterer, marriage swindler, and craft baker, we can trace
the different observation regimes and systems of knowledge acquisition in the prison and in psychiatry. In both institutions
there was talk of simulated madness; the explanations, however, were different. For the prison doctor...
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals
„Man lasse doch diese Dinge selber einmal sprechen“Email this article to a colleague.
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“Let these things speak for themselves”. Experiment Kits, Instruction Manuals, and Narratives between 1870 and 1930
Experiment kits, such as physical cabinets, chemistry sets, and electricity kits designed for amateurs and children, gained
huge popularity in Germany around 1900. These home laboratories connected themselves to the things of everyday life as objects
of investigation and everyday knowledge as their framework of reference. In the previous centuries, portable laboratories
had already accompanied travelling scientists and intellectuals. Experiment kits however, while still portable, were de...
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals
From History of Colonial Medicine to Plural Medicine in a Global PerspectiveEmail this article to a colleague.
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Content Type Journal ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00048-009-0359-9Authors
Waltraud Ernst, Oxford Brookes University Department of History Oxford OX3 0BP GroßbritannienProjit B. Mukharji, McMaster University Department of History Hamilton Ontario Kanada
Journal NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und MedizinOnline ISSN 1420-9144Print ISSN 0036-6978
Journal Volume Volume 17
Journal Issue Volume 17, Number 4 / November, 2009 (Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine)
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals
Eine Reise ins (Un-)BekannteEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article deals with the social background of his studies in Germany and France and his perception of foreign
lands, plants, and peoples. Before Rauwolf started his journey at Marseille in 1573 he had received a proper education in
practical botany at Montpellier under Guillaume Rondelet. He had also collected about 600 specimens of plants in his herbarium.
According to the common medical conventions of his time – most prominently represented by the Renaissance anatomist Andreas
Vesalius – in his travel account Rauwolf claimed to tell only what he had seen, experienced, observed by himself, or touched
with his ...
Source: NTM International Journal of History & Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology & Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: NTM Zeitschrift f ür Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Source Type: journals
Image, text and Observatio: the Codex Kentmanus.Email this article to a colleague.
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This paper examines the inter-relationship between image, text and object in the Codex Kentmanus, which is one of the earliest records of the plants in the botanical garden at Padua, studied by Johannes Kentmann (1518-77). The manuscript shows that "observation" for Kentmann involved a gradual process of assimilating knowledge from other physicians, apothecaries, and books in order to make the plants which were originally encountered at a specific time and place into a more generalised object of study for learned physicians.
PMID: 19852380 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Early Science and Medicine)
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 27, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kusukawa S Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
Hospital and asylum visiting in historical perspective: themes and issues.Email this article to a colleague.
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Discussion of the wider historical significance of visiting draws attention to issues such as urban governance, philanthropy, the public sphere, civil society and citizenship.
PMID: 19842332 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mooney G, Reinarz J Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Receiving the rich, rejecting the poor: towards a history of hospital visiting in nineteenth-century provincial England.Email this article to a colleague.
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The changing perceptions of visitors to hospitals in provincial England during the long nineteenth century are examined in this chapter. In particular, it discusses the experience of visitors to hospitals in nine general and specialist hospitals in Birmingham, England's 'second city'. Though the history of visitors in this provincial setting supports the general assumption that hospital governors received the rich and rejected the poor, this chapter demonstrates that attitudes to visitors were not always straightforward. Views of hospital governors and medical staff varied with medical specialism, hospital finances, an...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Reinarz J Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'Family-centred care' in American hospitals in late-Qing China.Email this article to a colleague.
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Today, patients' families in the West are regaining the access to hospitals that they lost when hospitals emerged as the primary site for medical treatment, research and training at the beginning of the twentieth century. In China, however, families were never excluded from American mission-run hospitals, in fact, they were indispensable. Families were in the waiting rooms, consulting rooms,wards and operating theatres. They provided more than reassurance and comfort: they fed and nursed their sick relatives, acted as advocates and middlemen and may even have lowered the incidence of cross-infection, the scourge of the...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Renshaw M Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Care, nurturance and morality: the role of visitors and the Victorian London children's hospital.Email this article to a colleague.
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Visitors at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, fulfilled an economic, social and marketing role at an institution which, in its earliest years, struggled against significant opposition from medical and charitable critics. Men and women from the respectable classes found a function that reflected well their philanthropic credentials, and that also opened up social and professional opportunities. The parents and families of the patients, however, found themselves marginalised by the hospital, and granted little scope to influence the hospital experience of their children or to interact with the supporte...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tanner A Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Pariahs or partners? Welcome and unwelcome visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900-50.Email this article to a colleague.
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The idea of 'visitors' when applied to hospitals may appear simple and uncontroversial: relatives or friends keeping the sick person company, lifting the spirits and offering support. The reality was more complex and challenging, particularly in the care of child patients. The Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children constantly evolved its relationship with visitors in the first half of the twentieth century. Two major variables are discussed in this chapter: the changing importance of the visitors themselves and the way in which the Jenny Lind defined and adapted its perspective on visitors and the nature of visiting.
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Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lindsay B Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Visiting children with cancer: the parental experience of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995-2005.Email this article to a colleague.
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This chapter examines the unique role of parental visitors of children with cancer at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995 to 2005. Using oral interviews with parents, medical and psychosocial staff, the study explores the experiences of parents while in hospital with their children and the social, emotional, financial and family issues they confronted during these admissions. Parents in their stories identified the various roles they assumed as their children experienced illness, treatment, side effects and psychosocial issues. The study also questions the relative importance of family dynamics, race, and socio...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Rohrer RL Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Infection and citizenship: (not) visiting isolation hospitals in mid-Victorian Britain.Email this article to a colleague.
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Local authority provision for the sequestration of infectious people mushroomed in Great Britain from the mid-1860s. By the First World War, more than 750 isolation hospitals contained almost 32,000 beds for infectious patients, most of whom were children. Trips to an isolation hospital were problematic because visitors might contract infection there and spread it to the wider community. Various strategies sought to minimise this risk or eliminate it altogether. This chapter argues that the management of isolation hospital visitors was typical of Victorian public health's tendency to regulate people's behaviour. By gra...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mooney G Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Stage-managing a hospital in the eighteenth century: visitation at the London Lock Hospital.Email this article to a colleague.
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London's Lock Hospital, established in 1747 to treat venereal diseases, depended heavily on charity. Its administrators tried valiantly to project a positive image of the hospital in spite of the pervading moral assumptions about its patients and doubts about whether they deserved charity. Policies governing visitation were bound up in the hospital's attempts to police itself and promote its cause to benefactors. Visitation policies served numerous ends, including policing patients, introducing moral reform, monitoring the staff, and obscuring the reality of the wards from public view, ensuring that prospective donors ...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Siena K Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'The keeper must himself be kept': visitation and the lunatic asylum in England, 1750-1850.Email this article to a colleague.
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There was a growing disquiet in eighteenth-century England about the activities of private madhouses. Early legislation, in 1774, gave limited powers of registration and inspection to local magistrates.The exposure of flagrant abuses in both private and public institutions by a parliamentary select committee, in 1815, brought the question of visitation to the centre of the lunacy reform agenda. Subsequent legislation extended the responsibilities of magistrates and also established the principal of centralised oversight. An effective national system of regulation was finally created in 1845, with Commissioners in Lunac...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Smith L Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'A disgrace to a civilised community': colonial psychiatry and the visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937-8.Email this article to a colleague.
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In 1937, Edward Mapother, Medical Superintendent of the Maudsley Hospital in London, took a trip around the mental hospitals of Britain's dominions in South Asia. The result was a series of documents that provide a snapshot of psychiatry in India and Ceylon in the twilight years of the British Empire. This chapter will consider Mapother's reports from a number of perspectives in order to assess the politics and the impact of an expert 'visitor' to a colonial medical system.
PMID: 19842341 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clio Medica)
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Mills JH, Jain S Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'In view of the knowledge to be acquired': public visits to New York's asylums in the nineteenth century.Email this article to a colleague.
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This chapter examines asylum tourism in nineteenth-century New York. It argues that the popularity of visits by the public undermines the notion that asylums were segregated from greater society, and instead, suggests that these institutions were deeply embedded within the social and cultural landscape of the time. While challenging many of our assumptions regarding the relationship of asylums with their greater communities, the phenomenon of visiting enhances our understanding of both popular attitudes towards the mentally ill and the experiences of patients themselves. As people believed asylums represented something...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Miron J Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
'Amusements are provided': asylum entertainment and recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860-c.1945.Email this article to a colleague.
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This chapter examines the official 'entertainment', in all its forms, provided to inmates in Australian and New Zealand asylums--later mental hospitals--between c.1860 and c.1945. Visitors came into asylum grounds and patients were permitted periods of leave, all for the purposes of entertainment and recreation. Surviving recreation buildings, their grounds and institutional archives, bear silent witness to the noisy and lively recreational activities of past patients, staff and visitors. This chapter reconstructs these practices in twenty public and three private asylums from this period by examining a diverse range o...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: MacKinnon D Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
Challenging institutional hegemony: family visitors to hospitals for the insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s-1910s.Email this article to a colleague.
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Historians have increasingly come to identify that there was considerable traffic between nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions and the world beyond, with official visitors recording details of their regular forays inside asylum walls, and sometimes family members visiting the institution to check on treatments, patients' progress and welfare. This chapter explores the broad array of experiences of asylum visitors in colonial Australia and New Zealand, focusing on families and their responses to the institution. It draws upon a range of materials to show that visitors found their way inside the hospital for the i...
Source: Clio Medica - October 23, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Coleborne C Tags: Clio Med Source Type: journals
The simple ontology of kalăm atomism: an outline.Email this article to a colleague.
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The simple ontology of kalăm atomism: an outline.
Early Sci Med. 2009;14(1-3):68-78
Authors: Sabra AI
This paper aims to present concisely the Islamic kalăm atomism as an alternative philosophy to Hellenizing falsafa. Kalăm is a theological-philosophical discourse which, first (in the third/ninth century) ventured to rival the falsafa represented early by al-Kindĭ (d.ca. 252/866), then by al-Fărăbĭ and Avicenna in the fourth/tenth and fifth/ eleventh centuries, and which eventually (in the sixth/twelfth century and after) appeared to be inclined to propose a mingling of...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sabra AI Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
Footprints of "experiment" in early Arabic optics.Email this article to a colleague.
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This study traces the early developments of the concept of experiment with a view of extending the subject in both content and approach. It extends the content of the subject slightly backward, prior to the methodological breakthroughs of the Optics of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen or Alhacen, d. ca. 1040), which are credited as a "significant landmark in the history of experimental science." And it extends the approach to the subject slightly forward, from the premise that early science was "largely carried out in books," to a close examination of the books through which the footprints of'experiment' may be traced. The point of...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Kheirandish E Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
The "experience-based medicine" of the thirteenth century.Email this article to a colleague.
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We should not assume that medieval physicians did not take pains to found their practice upon evidence. Academic physicians at Montpellier ca. 1300 were cautious about accepting textbook claims for the powers of drugs, and tried to verify each drug's physiological effects before using it; yet they were also flexible, ready to believe that powerful new medicines might be discovered empirically that were unknown to their authorities or superficially inconsistent with existing knowledge. Likewise, physicians were careful to observe their patients closely and to try to identify the condition from which each was suffering, ...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: McVaugh M Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
The intellect naturalized: Roger Bacon on the existence of corporeal species within the intellect.Email this article to a colleague.
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In this paper I challenge the claim that Bacon considered the operation of species as limited to the physical and sensory levels and demonstrate that in his view, the very same species issued by physical objects operate within the intellect as well. I argue that in Bacon the concept of illumination plays a secondary role in the acquisition of knowledge, and that he regarded innate knowledge as dispositional and confused. What was left as the main channel through which knowledge is gained were species received through the senses. I argue that according to Bacon these species, representing their agents in essence, defini...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Raizman-Kedar Y Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
Magic and the physical world in thirteenth-century scholasticism.Email this article to a colleague.
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The turn to modern science in the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century is typically characterized as dependent on the novel adoption of a mechanical hypothesis for operations in nature. In fact, the Middle Ages saw a partial anticipation of this phenomenon in the scholastic physics of the thirteenth century. More precisely, it was just the two factors, denial of action at a distance and an emphasis on the primary materiality of causation, that constituted this early mechanism--or "protomechanism." The latter's emergence can be seen most clearly where scholastic thinkers-here, William of Auvergne, Thomas Aqu...
Source: Early Science and Medicine - October 18, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Marrone SP Tags: Early Sci Med Source Type: journals
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PMID: 19801791 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine)
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals
Presidential Address: Quarantining Women: Venereal Disease Rapid Treatment Centers in World War II America.Email this article to a colleague.
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Concern about the infection of servicemen and essential war workers with venereal disease led the U.S. Public Health Service, with the cooperation of state and local health officials, to set up a national program of venereal disease quarantine hospitals during World War II. Although some of the hospitals eventually accepted men, the initial purpose of these facilities was to detain and treat venereally affected prostitutes and "promiscuous women" who were considered a threat to the war effort. Using quarantine powers, officials forcibly detained venereally infected women and treated them for their disease. Th...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - October 6, 2009 Category: History of Medicine Tags: Bull Hist Med Source Type: journals
