The vitamin A story [[electronic resource] ] : lifting the shadow of death / / Richard D. Semba

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910353343103321
• Autore: Semba Richard D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel ; ; New York, : Karger, c2012
• ISBN: 3-318-02189-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics ; ; v.104; World review of nutrition and dietetics, , 0084-2230 ; ; v. 104
• Disciplina: 613.2/86
• Soggetti: Vitamin A deficiency - History; Vitamin A - History; History, 19th Century; Night Blindness - history; Vitamin A - therapeutic use
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Glossary -- Chapter 1: Vitamin A Deficiency in Nineteenth Century Naval Medicine -- Night Blindness at Sea -- Night Blindness Linked to Other Diseases of Malnutrition -- Diagnosis and the Search for a Cause -- Something Missing from the Food -- Chapter 2: Paris in the Time of Françoise Magendie -- Different but Hardly Better -- Bad Gets Worse -- First Steps in the Science of Public Health -- D'Arcet's Gelatin for the Needy and the Dietary Nitrogen Studies of Magendie -- Chapter 3: Deprivation Provides a Laboratory -- A Defect in Alimentation -- Gains in Nutrition, Then a Disastrous Reversal -- Chapter 4: Free but Not Equal -- Race and Rank: Differences in Diet and Susceptibility -- Uneven Nutrition outside the Union Army -- Chapter 5: The Long, Rocky Road to Understanding Vitamins -- Moving Beyond Old Assumptions and Around New Certainties -- Connecting the "Accessory Factors" and the Vitamin Deficiency Diseases -- Finding an Elusive Panacea in Milk -- Obstructions, Chicanery, and Perseverance -- Lafayette Mendel's Far-Flung Progeny and His Legacy -- Chapter 6: Milk, Butter, and Early Steps in Human Trials -- The High Health Cost of a Booming Dairy ; Industry -- Milk Studies in Britain: Experiments in Experimentation -- Interference from Within and Without -- Lessons Learned -- Chapter 7: Rise of the "Anti-Infective Vitamin" -- Abating Childbed Fever: A Path with Forks and Obstacles -- A Gentle Warrior Confronts a Children's Predator -- A Vitamin's Short Stay at the Limelight -- Chapter 8: Vitamin A Deficiency in Europe's Former Colonies -- Dutch Initiative versus the Free Market -- Health in the Developing World Becomes a Multinational Concern -- Chapter 9: Saving the Children: Rescue Missions against Strong Undertow -- Ideals for a New Era -- The Best Laid Plans... -- Getting It Right and on the International Agenda -- External Obstructions -- Much Accomplished, More to Do -- More Vegetables and Fruit: Nice Idea, but... -- Appendix: Night Blindness Among Black Troops and White Troops in the US Civil War -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Published Sources -- Subject Index -- Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book shows how vitamin A deficiency before the vitamin was known to scientists affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem.

Les facultés de l’âme à l’âge classique : Imagination, entendement et jugement / / Tamás Pavlovits, Chantal Jaquet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910310641903321
• Autore: Boros Gábor
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris, : Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019
• ISBN: 979-1-03-510264-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ChareixFabien; CharrakAndré; DevauxMichaël; GoursatJuliette; GuenanciaPierre; JaquetChantal; KambouchnerDenis; KaposiDorottya; KlajnmanAdrien; MoldvayTamás; MoreauPierre-François; PavlovitsTamás; SchmalDaniel
• Soggetti: Philosophy; imagination; entendement; jugement; facultés de l'âme; erreur; logique; raison; Port-Royal
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Francese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Le XVIIe siècle est souvent présenté comme le siècle de la raison, mais cette évidence ne doit pas faire oublier qu’il fut d’abord une époque de crise et de rupture par rapport aux Anciens et à l’École. Confronté à l’incapacité des philosophies antérieures de parvenir à une certitude incontestée, l’esprit en vient à douter de lui-même, à s’interroger sur sa faculté de savoir et sur ses conditions d’exercice. Est-il possible de fonder un jugement théorique et moral sûr et de surmonter le scepticisme ? L’entendement est-il disposé naturellement au vrai ou a-t-il besoin d’une réforme radicale ? L’imagination est-elle vouée à l’erreur ou peut-elle jouer un rôle fécond dans l’élaboration du savoir ? Autant de questions qui travaillent en profondeur les différents systèmes philosophiques et les invitent à résoudre la crise du savoir par la mise en place de méthodes nouvelles, par l’invention d’une logique, et la redéfinition des fonctions de la raison et de l’imagination. Issu d’une coopération franco-hongroise, cet ouvrage consacré aux facultés de l’âme vise moins à examiner les progrès du rationalisme à l’âge classique que les difficultés et les interrogations qui ont présidé à sa constitution.