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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484998903321

Titolo

Healers and Empires in Global History : Healing as Hybrid and Contested Knowledge / / edited by Markku Hokkanen, Kalle Kananoja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030154912

3030154912

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1641

Disciplina

306.46109

362.109

Soggetti

Imperialism

World history

Medicine - History

Science - History

Imperialism and Colonialism

World History, Global and Transnational History

History of Medicine

History of Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction - Markku Hokkanen and Kalle Kananoja -- 2. Traditional Arctic Healing and Medicines of Modernisation in Finnish and Swedish Lapland - Ritva Kylli -- 3. Reports on Encounters of Medical Cultures: Two Physicians in Sweden's Medical and Colonial Connections in the Late Eighteenth Century - Saara-Maija Kontturi -- 4. Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism in the Soviet Union: Research, Repression, and Revival, 1922-1991 - Ivan Sablin -- 5. Contestation, Redefinition and Healers' Tactics in Colonial Southern Africa - Markku Hokkanen -- 6. Complicating Hybrid Medical Practices in the Tropics: Examining the Case of São Tomé and Príncipe, 1850-1926 - Rafaela Jobbitt -- 7. Doctors, Healers and Charlatans in Brazil: A Short History of Ideas, c. 1650-1950 - Kalle Kananoja -- 8. Risking Obeah: A Spiritual Infrastructure in the Danish West Indies, c. 1800-1848 -



Gunvor Simonsen -- 9. Toward a Typology of Nineteenth-Century Lakota Magico-Medico-Ritual Specialists - David C. Posthumus.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores cross-cultural medical encounters involving non-Western healers in a variety of imperial contexts from the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Americas and the Caribbean. It highlights contests over healing, knowledge and medicines through the frameworks of hybridisation and pluralism. The intertwined histories of medicine, empire and early globalisation influenced the ways in which millions of people encountered and experienced suffering, healing and death. In an increasingly global search for therapeutics and localised definition of acceptable healing, networks and mobilities played key roles. Healers' engagements with politics, law and religion underline the close connections between healing, power and authority. They also reveal the agency of healers, sufferers and local societies, in encounters with modernising imperial states, medical science and commercialisation. The book questions and complements the traditional narratives of triumphant biomedicine, reminding readers that'traditional' medical cultures and practitioners did not often disappear, but rather underwent major changes in the increasingly interconnected world.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019273303321

Titolo

Power electronics semiconductor devices / / edited by Robert Perret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : ISTE

Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-25383-2

9786613814487

0-470-61149-9

0-470-39414-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (569 p.)

Collana

ISTE ; ; v.66

Altri autori (Persone)

PerretRobert

Disciplina

621.381/044

621.38152

Soggetti

Power electronics

Power semiconductors

Solid state electronics

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

Power Electronics Semiconductor Devices; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Power MOSFET Transistors; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Power MOSFET technologies; 1.2.1. Diffusion process; 1.2.2. Physical and structural MOS parameters; 1.2.3. Permanent sustaining current; 1.3. Mechanism of power MOSFET operation; 1.3.1. Basic principle; 1.3.2. Electron injection; 1.3.3. Static operation; 1.3.4. Dynamic operation; 1.4. Power MOSFET main characteristics; 1.5. Switching cycle with an inductive load; 1.5.1. Switch-on study; 1.5.2. Switch-off study

1.6. Characteristic variations due to MOSFET temperature changes1.7. Over-constrained operations; 1.7.1. Overvoltage on the gate; 1.7.2. Over-current; 1.7.3. Avalanche sustaining; 1.7.4. Use of the body diode; 1.7.5. Safe operating areas; 1.8. Future developments of the power MOSFET; 1.9. References; Chapter 2. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. IGBT technology; 2.2.1. IGBT structure; 2.2.2. Voltage and current characteristics; 2.3. Operation technique; 2.3.1. Basic principle; 2.3.2. Continuous operation; 2.3.3. Dynamic operation; 2.4. Main IGBT characteristics



2.5 One cycle of hard switching on the inductive load2.5.1. Switch-on study; 2.5.2. Switch-off study; 2.6 Soft switching study; 2.6.1. Soft switching switch-on: ZVS (Zero Voltage Switching); 2.6.2. Soft switching switch-off: ZCS (Zero Current Switching); 2.7. Temperature operation; 2.8. Over-constraint operations; 2.8.1. Overvoltage; 2.8.2. Over-current; 2.8.3. Manufacturer's specified safe operating areas; 2.9. Future of IGBT; 2.9.1. Silicon evolution; 2.9.2. Saturation voltage improvements; 2.10. IGBT and MOSFET drives and protections; 2.10.1. Gate drive design; 2.10.2. Gate drive circuits

2.10.3. MOSFET and IGBT protections2.11. References; Chapter 3. Series and Parallel Connections of MOS and IGBT; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Kinds of associations; 3.2.1. Increase of power; 3.2.2. Increasing performance; 3.3. The study of associations: operation and parameter influence on imbalances in series and parallel; 3.3.1. Analysis and characteristics for the study of associations; 3.3.2. Static operation; 3.3.3. Dynamic operation: commutation; 3.3.4. Transient operation; 3.3.5. Technological parameters that influence imbalances; 3.4. Solutions for design; 3.4.1. Parallel association

3.4.2. Series associations3.4.3. Matrix connection of components; 3.5. References; Chapter 4. Silicon Carbide Applications in Power Electronics; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Physical properties of silicon carbide; 4.2.1. Structural features; 4.2.2. Chemical, mechanical and thermal features; 4.2.3. Electronic and thermal features; 4.2.4. Other "candidates" as semiconductors of power; 4.3. State of the art technology for silicon carbide power components; 4.3.1. Substrates and thin layers of SiC; 4.3.2. Technological steps for achieving power components

4.4. Applications of silicon carbide in power electronics

Sommario/riassunto

This book relates the recent developments in several key electrical engineering R&D labs, concentrating on power electronics switches and their use. The first sections deal with key power electronics technologies, MOSFETs and IGBTs, including series and parallel associations. The next section examines silicon carbide and its potentiality for power electronics applications and its present limitations. Then, a dedicated section presents the capacitors, key passive components in power electronics, followed by a modeling method allowing the stray inductances computation, necessary for the precise