Figures of Medicine - Blood, Face Transplants, Parasites

Informationen zum Autor François Delaporte is Professor Emeritus of the University of Picardia Jules Verne. Several of his books have been translated into English, including Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832 ; The History of Yellow Fever ; Anatomy of the Passions ; and Nature's Second Kingdom . He also edited A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem . Klappentext In this provocative collection of essays, François Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six seemingly disparate cases, Figures of Medicine reanimates the methodological and intellectual stakes at the core of the history of science and medicine. Zusammenfassung In this provocative collection of essays, François Delaporte shows how every epistemological concern demands its own mode of engagement. Through six seemingly disparate cases, Figures of Medicine reanimates the methodological and intellectual stakes at the core of the history of science and medicine.

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• Authors: Fran Ois Delaporte, Francois Delaporte, François Delaporte, Franois Delaporte, Nils F. Schott, Nils F. Delaporte Schott
• Assisted by: Nils F. Schott (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2013
• EAN: 9780823244454
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-4445-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine