Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV / / Renilde Loeckx |
Autore | Loeckx Renilde |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leuven University Press, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 PDF (186 pages) :) : portraits |
Disciplina | 616.9792 |
Soggetto topico |
AIDS (Disease) - Research - Political aspects
HIV infections - Research - Political aspects AIDS (Disease) - International cooperation HIV infections - International cooperation |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN | 94-6166-245-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- I. Leuven : a hotbed for antiviral research -- II. Behind the Iron Curtain -- III. Strange bedfellows : a Czech chemist and a Flemish virologist -- IV. The sixties in Leuven and Prague -- V. Enzymes : the secret of life as chemistry -- VI. From interferon to nucleosides -- VII. Breaking away from interferon -- VIII. The first antiviral drugs -- IX. Aids emerges in the shadow of the Cold War -- X. From passivity to action -- XI. First attempts to halt the epidemic -- XII. Finding the best therapy : the one-a-day-pill -- Epilogue : of scientists and crusaders. |
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Loeckx Renilde | ||
Leuven University Press, 2017 | ||
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From melancholia to depression : disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry / / Åsa Jansson |
Autore | Jansson Åsa |
Edizione | [First edition, 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Springer Nature, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 306.09 |
Collana | Mental Health in Historical Perspective |
Soggetto topico |
Depression, Mental - History - 19th century
Melancholy - History - 19th century Psychiatry - History - 19th century - United Kingdom |
Soggetto non controllato |
Social History
History of Medicine Psychiatry History of Britain and Ireland Mood disorders Psychiatric illness Physiology Psychology Statistical and diagnostic practices Asylum records Insanity Madness Mental pain Suicidal tendencies Psychological distress Open Access Social & cultural history History of medicine European history |
ISBN |
9783030548025
9783030548018 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Disordered Mood as Historical Problem -- 2. The Scientific Foundation of Disordered Mood -- 3. The Classification of Melancholia in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Medicine -- 4. Melancholia and the New Biological Psychiatry -- 5. Statistics, Classification, and the Standardisation of Melancholia -- 6. Diagnosing Melancholia in the Victorian Asylum -- 7. Conclusion: Melancholia, Depression, and the Politics of Classification. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910420942303321 |
Jansson Åsa | ||
Springer Nature, 2021 | ||
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Galen's treatise Peri alypias (De indolentia) in context : : a tale of resilience / / edited by Caroline Petit |
Autore | Petit Caroline |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Studies in ancient medicine |
Soggetto topico | History of medicine |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN |
90-04-38330-1
90-04-38328-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright page -- A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας / Caroline Petit -- Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a Summary of the Main Findings and Problems / P. N. Singer -- Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s Œuvre -- Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings / Caroline Petit -- Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28 / Amy Coker -- New Light and Old Texts: Galen on His Own Books / P. N. Singer -- Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition -- Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is It? / Christopher Gill -- Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress / R. J. Hankinson -- A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond / P. N. Singer -- Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress / Teun Tieleman -- Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire -- Galen and the Plague / Rebecca Flemming -- Galen and the Last Days of Commodus / Matthew Nicholls -- The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας -- Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen? / Antoine Pietrobelli -- Back Matter -- Index Locorum -- General Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910367628303321 |
Petit Caroline | ||
Brill, 2019 | ||
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Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica : Commentaria VII–VIII, Indices / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 721 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077500-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Indices -- A. Index of Arabic proper names -- B. Index of Arabic words -- C. Index of proper names and subjects to the translation -- D. Index of passages cited -- Addenda et corrigenda |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996500669903316 |
Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica : Commentaria VII–VIII, Indices / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 721 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077500-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Indices -- A. Index of Arabic proper names -- B. Index of Arabic words -- C. Index of proper names and subjects to the translation -- D. Index of passages cited -- Addenda et corrigenda |
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Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
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Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica : Commentaria IV–VI / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 507 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077498-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996500670003316 |
Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica : Commentaria IV–VI / / Uwe Vagelpohl |
Autore | Galenus |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 507 p.) |
Disciplina | 610 |
Collana | Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale |
Soggetto topico | Epidemics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Arabistic
Galen History of medicine Medicine in antiquity |
ISBN | 3-11-077498-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ara |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM ET COMPENDIORUM -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI |
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Galenus | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Akademie Forschung, , [2022] | ||
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Greek Medical Literature and its Readers : From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium / / editors, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Sophia Xenophontos |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina | 610.938 |
Collana | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London |
Soggetto topico |
Medical literature - Greece
Medicine, Greek and Roman - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
patient cases
hippocratic communication Case report Epidemic Epistemology Galen History of medicine Medicine Mnemonic Physician |
ISBN |
1-351-20525-0
1-351-20526-9 1-351-20527-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part, 5I The Classical world -- chapter Introduction / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos Sophia Xenophontos -- chapter 1 Alcmaeon and his addressees -- Revisiting the incipit * / Stavros Kouloumentas -- chapter 2 Gone with the wind -- Laughter and the audience of the Hippocratic treatises / Laurence M. V. Totelin -- chapter 3 The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics -- Patient cases in Hippocratic scientific communication 1 / Chiara Thumiger -- part, 65II The Imperial world -- chapter 4 Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine -- An educational work for prospective medical students * / Sophia Xenophontos -- chapter 5 An interpretation of the preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1 by Pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias in light of medical education * / Michiel Meeusen -- part, 111III The Islamic world -- chapter 6 The user-friendly Galen -- Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the adaptation of Greek medicine for a new audience / Uwe Vagelpohl -- chapter 7 Medical knowledge as proof of the Creator’s wisdom and the Arabic reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts / Elvira Wakelnig -- part, 151IV The Byzantine world -- chapter 8 Physician versus physician -- Comparing the audience of On the Constitution of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician * / Erika Gielen -- chapter 9 Reading Galen in Byzantium -- The fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon * / Petros Bouras-Vallianatos. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765764103321 |
London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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A History of Population Health : Rise and Fall of Disease in Europe / / Johan P. Mackenbach |
Autore | Mackenbach Johan P. |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 306.09 |
Collana | Clio Medica |
Soggetto topico | Social history |
Soggetto non controllato |
Medicine
History of medicine |
ISBN | 90-04-42913-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- List of illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Utopia come true? -- Rising life expectancy -- The rise and fall of disease -- The epidemiologic transition theory -- The McKeown debate and the Preston-curve -- The role of human agency -- &;How to read this book -- Concepts, sources, data and methods -- PART I. LONG-TERM TRENDS: A BIRD’S EYE VIEW -- Chapter 2. Long-term trends in population health -- Changes in over-all population health -- Declining mortality -- Young and old, men and women -- Regional and social inequalities -- Rising height -- More years in good health, more years in bad health? -- Changes in disease patterns -- Shifting causes of death -- Shifts in the burden of disease -- Diseases rise, diseases fall -- Epidemiologic transition 2.0 -- A theory in need of repair -- How: characterizing change -- When: staging change -- Where: locating change -- Chapter 3. Understanding trends in population health -- Theories of population health -- An ‘ecological-evolutionary theory’ of the origins of disease -- Explaining long-term change -- Economic, political and sociocultural conditions -- Economic history: improvements in living standards -- Political history: the rise of the modern state -- Sociocultural history: the lights go on -- Public health and medical care -- A short history of public health -- The impact of public health -- A short history of medical care -- The Role of Medicine -- PART II. ZOOMING IN: THE RISE AND FALL OF DISEASES -- Chapter 4. Health problems of pre-industrial societies -- Violence and hunger -- War -- Homicide -- Famine -- Great epidemics -- Plague -- Smallpox -- Typhus -- Malaria -- Chapter 5. Health problems of industrializing societies -- Communicable diseases -- Cholera, dysentery, typhoid -- Tuberculosis -- Syphilis -- Scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria -- Pneumonia, influenza -- Maternal, infant and perinatal mortality -- Maternal mortality -- Infant mortality -- Still-births -- Other health problems of industrializing societies -- Pellagra, rickets, goitre -- Peptic ulcer, appendicitis -- Lung diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures -- Chapter 6. Health problems of affluent societies -- Chronic diseases -- Ischaemic heart disease -- Cerebrovascular disease -- Diabetes mellitus -- Stomach, colorectal, breast, prostate cancer -- Lung cancer -- Liver cirrhosis -- Dementia -- Depression -- Injuries -- Road traffic injuries -- Suicide -- A new plague -- AIDS -- PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK -- Chapter 7. Why? -- Why did European population health improve? -- The rise and fall of disease -- The role of human agency -- The role of public health and medical care -- The Rise of the West: was there a ‘prime mover’? -- Why did some countries rush ahead or lag behind? -- Northern lights: the Swedish advantage -- Dutch comfort: we were the champions -- Southern miracles: from rear-guard to forefront -- Balkan troubles: the weight of the past -- Russian roulette: the value of life -- Chapter 8. Outlook -- Feathers of Icarus -- Geopolitical instability -- Increasing inequality -- Global environmental change -- The way ahead -- The public health paradigm -- An expanding circle of concern -- Re-thinking Utopia -- By way of conclusion -- Through the telescope of history -- The European experience -- The role of politics -- The future -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Mackenbach Johan P. | ||
Brill, 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Imagining Chinese medicine / / edited by Vivienne Lo, Penelope Barrett |
Autore | Lo Vivienne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Brill, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxi, 519 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Disciplina | 610.222 |
Collana | Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series |
Soggetto topico |
Medical illustration - History
Medicine, Chinese - Illustrations - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato | History of medicine |
ISBN | 90-04-36618-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material / Vivienne Lo 羅維前 and Penelope Barrett -- Introduction / Vivienne Lo 羅維前 -- A Survey of Images from the Chinese Medical Classics / Wang Shumin 王淑民 and Gabriel Fuentes -- Picturing the Body in Chinese Medical and Daoist Texts from the Song to the Qing Period (10th to 19th Centuries) / Catherine Despeux -- Imagining Practice: Sense and Sensuality in Early Chinese Medical Illustration / Vivienne Lo 羅維前 -- The Iconography of Time: What the Visualisation of Efficacious Movement (Shi 勢) Tells Us about the Composition of the Yijin Jing 易筋經 (Canon for Supple Sinews) / Elisabeth Hsu -- Nurturing the Foetus in Medieval China: Illustrating the 10 Months of Pregnancy in the Ishimpō 醫心方 / Sabine Wilms -- The Gendered Medical Iconography of the Golden Mirror, Yuzuan Yizong Jinjian 御纂醫宗金鑑, 1742 / Yi-Li Wu 吳一立 -- The Limits of Illustration: Animalia and Pharmacopeia from Guo Pu to Bencao Gangmu 本草綱目 / Roel Sterckx -- Observational Drawing and Fine Art in Chinese Materia Medica Illustration / Zheng Jinsheng 鄭金生 -- Reading Visual Imagery and Written Sources on Acupuncture and Moxibustion / Huang Longxiang 黃龍祥 -- The Fine Art of the Tongue / Nancy Holroyde-Downing -- Diagnostic Images of the Tongue: Aetiology and Pathology Made Visible / Liang Rong 梁嶸 -- A Brief Introduction to Illustration in the Literature of Surgery and Traumatology in Chinese Medicine / Hu Xiaofeng 胡曉峰 -- Polychrome Illustrations in the Ming Bencao Literature / Cao Hui 曹暉 -- Illustrations of Drug Collection and Preparation in Buyi Lei Gong Paozhi Bianlan 補遺雷公炮製便覽 / Xiao Yongzhi 肖永芝 -- The Relationship between Chinese Erotic Art and the Art of the Bedchamber: A Preliminary Survey / Sumiyo Umekawa 梅川純代 and David Dear -- The Vital Role of Illustration in the Literature of Childhood Smallpox / Wan Fang 萬芳 -- Picturing Medicine in Daily life: Court and Commoner Perspectives in Song Era Paintings / TJ Hinrichs -- Images of Healing, Hygiene and the Cultivation of the Body in the Dunhuang Cave Murals / Wang Jinyu 王進玉 -- Travelling Light: Sino-Tibetan Moxa-Cautery from Dunhuang / Vivienne Lo 羅維前 and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Chasing the Vermilion Bird: Late Medieval Alchemical Transformations in The Treasure Book of Ilkhan on Chinese Science and Techniques / Vivienne Lo 羅維前 and Wang Yidan 王一丹 -- Fanciful Images from Abroad: Picturing the Other in Bencao Pinhui Jingyao 本草品彙精要 / Chen Ming 陳明 -- Chinese Horse Medicine: Texts and Illustrations / Paul D. Buell , Timothy May and David Ramey -- Korean Anatomical Charts in the Context of the East Asian Medical Tradition / Shin Dongwon 신동원 -- Imagining Acupuncture: Images and the Early Westernisation of Asian Medical Expertise / Roberta Bivins -- The Body of Laozi and the Course of a Taoist Journey Through the Heavens / Patrice Fava -- Clinical Medicine Texts: The Earliest Stone Medical Inscription / Zhang Ruixian 張瑞 , Wang Jiakui 王家葵 and Michael Stanley-Baker 徐源 -- Embodying Animal Spirits in the Vital Organs: Daoist Alchemy in Chinese Medicine / Zhang Qicheng 張其成 and David Dear -- A Phoenix Amid the Flames: Mount Emei Big Dipper Finger-Point Method, Daoyin and Qigong / Liao Yuqun 廖育群 -- Moving towards Perfection: Physical Culture in Dzogchen as Revealed in Tibet’s Lukhang Murals / Ian A. Baker. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910310645403321 |
Lo Vivienne | ||
Brill, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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