A Short History Of Cardiology.(Clio Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine 40)

The story told in this book begins in about 1700, when the first attempts were made to study the diseased heart in life (the subject matter of cardiology), as distinct from its appearance after death; it ends, rather arbitrarily, in 1970. The account of the development of knowledge of heart disease is mainly chronological with emphasis on the fruitful consequences of the cross-fertilization of clinical practice with pathological anatomy at the beginning of the nineteenth century and with physiology at the end. In addition, shorter chapters deal with such topics as specific disease entities, methods of investigation, cardiac surgery and the work of two individuals - Peter Latham, an example of a physician practising with today's clinical skills but a very imperfect knowledge of the pathogenesis of heart disease and Etienne Marey, an early exponent of the clinical physiology which would, in time, throw light on that pathogenesis.

Medical Books

Fleming, P.R.

P.R. Fleming

History

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Sjef HOUPPERMANS: Introduction. 1. Ciaran ROSS: La Pensee de la Mère: Fonction et structure d'un fantasme. 2. Jean-Michel RABATÉ: Beckett's Ghosts and Fluxions. 3. Sjef HOUPPERMANS: À cheval. Daniel KATZ: Alone in the Accusative: Beckett's Narcissistic Echoes. 5. Tom COUSINEAU: The Lost Father in Beckett's Novels. 6. Mary BRYDEN: The Schizoid Space: Beckett, Deleuze, and L'épuisé.Kate Martin GRAY: Beckettian Interiority. 8. André FURLANI: Samuel Beckett's Molloy:Spartan Maieutics. 9. Ralph BISSCHOPS: Entropie et Elan Vitalchez Beckett. 10. Jeanette den TOONDER: Compagnie:Chimère autobiographique et métatexte. 11. Julian GARFORTH: A Trilingual Godot.

Beckett & La Psychanalyse & Psychoanalysis.(Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 5) (English and French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Houppermans, Sjef

Social Sciences

Life Contemplative, Life Practical. (Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities)

Science & Math

Helena Eilstein

Eilstein, Helena

History & Philosophy

L'aventure extraordinaire d'Alexandre a fait de lui un hÉros hors du commun dont les Échos ont rencontrÉ des interprÉtations bienveillantes et enthousiastes aussi bien que des commentaires franchement nÉgatifs. Pour les uns Alexandre Était le roi modÈle que les princes de ce monde feraient bien d'imiter: tout succÈs serait alors garanti. Pour les autres le comportement du jeune roi constituait un anti-exemple: son arrogance, son hybris Étaient inacceptables, voire pernicieux. Chaque sociÉtÉ rÉceptrice a ainsi rÉcrit l'aventure dans la perspective qu'elle a jugÉe fonctionnelle. Le travail que voici prÉsente pour la premiÈre fois l'Évolution des rÉÉcritures consacrÉes À Alexandre le Grand dans la littÉrature française du 12e siÈcle depuis le texte d'AlbÉric (dÉbut du siÈcle) jusqu'au Vengement Alixandre de Gui de Cambrai (vers 1191). Entre ces deux textes-lÀ on trouve l'Alexandre dÉcasyllabique, le Fuerre de Gadres mis sur le compte d'un certain Eustache, l'Alexandre en Orient de Lambert le Tort, la Mort Alixandre, les versions conservÉes par les manuscrits Arsenal et Venise, le Roman de toute Chevalerie attribuÉ À Thomas de Kent, la Venjance Alixandre de Jehan le Nevelon ainsi que le grand Roman d'Alexandre, terminÉ vers 1184/5, par Alexandre de Bernai dit de Paris, oÙ Alexandre est vraiment le roi modÈle. Ce dernier texte se distingue d'ailleurs non seulement des autres rÉÉcritures en territoire français de par sa solide charpente organisatrice (son compilateur l'a voulu example fonctionnel), mais aussi de par le fait qu'il est le seul À avoir occasionnÉ de nombreuses suites et interpolations,- parmi lesquelles, entre autres, les fameux Vœux du Paon de Jacques de Longuy-on (1313/4). La compilation d'Alexandre de Bernai dit de Paris est devenue, et ce À juste titre, la vulgate de la tradition française. A travers les analyses des diffÉrentes rÉÉcritures françaises de la vie du grand MacÉdonien que nous a lÉguÉes le 12e siÈcle se profile le statut unique du grand roman antique qu'est le Roman d'Alexandre.

La Legende D'alexandre Le Grand Dans La Litterature Francaise Du 12e Siecle. (Faux Titre) (French Edition)

Martin Gosman

Gosman, Martin

Signs of the Time is an investigation into contemporary art theory and the philosophy of art from 1945 till postmodernism. The author treats important precursors such as Freud and Marx, and contemporary theorists and philosophers such as Gombrich, Lacan, Heidegger, Sartre, Althusser, Marcuse, Gadamer, Derrida, Eco, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Lyotard.  Various texts are discussed, criticized and related to movements in contemporary art and to contemporary artists. The author addresses students in the field of art history, communica-tions, aesthetics, art education, art history, communications, aesthetics, as well as the art lover. Art as a sign of the time reveals the hidden dimensions of the world in which we live.

Signs Of The Time.(Lier & Boog 6)

Elias, Willem

Willem Elias

Philosophy

Modern medical ethics in the English-speaking world is commonly thought to derive from the medical philosophy of the Scotsman John Gregory (1725-1773) and his younger associates, the English Dissenter Thomas Percival (1740-1804) and the American Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). This book is the first extensive study of this suggestion. Dr Haakonssen shows how the three thinkers combined Francis Bacon's and the Scottish Enlightenment's ideas of the science of morals and the morals of science. She demonstrates how their medical ethics was a successful adaptation of traditional moral ideas to the dramatically changing medical world especially the voluntary hospital. In accounting for the dynamics of this process, she rejects the anachronism that modern medical ethics was a new paradigm.

Medicine & Morals in Enlightenment

Haakonssen

One of the prime issues that needs to be addressed in dialogical encounter between the three monotheistic faiths of the world is that concerning the authority and interpretation of Holy Writ, since Jews, Christians and Muslims alike consider their Scriptures to be divine revelation. It is incumbent upon each of these religions to apprise itself of the hermeneutical approach employed by the others in ascribing current meaning to ancient scriptural texts. This is not only important as a means for the enhancement of inter-religious understanding but is also of great interest to society at large. What role does the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Qu'ran play in the thinking and the lives of contemporary Jews, Christians, and Muslims? How are these Holy Scriptures interpreted in terms of present-day circumstances? How much room do the three religions allow for bringing their basic messages and biblical-theological traditions into rapport with constantly changing social, political and economic conditions? Is the concept of hermeneutical space acceptable to these religions? If so, in what sense and at what level? Is it possible to identify the scopus of a text and then reconstitute it textually, as it were, in light of the social and ethical questions thrown up by new contextual developments? Can interpretive adjustments be made without jeopardizing the core message of the text involved? And do the three monotheistic religions stand open to one another for influence in this regard? Has one or another of them taken hermeneutical cues from the others? Is there room for mutual learning within the hermeneutical space mentioned above or is this a sacred space closed to all influence from other traditions? These are among the central questions raised and dealt with in this interreligious collection of essays, perhaps the only dialogical symposium to date to deal exclusively with the doctrine and hermeneutics of Holy Scripture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Holy Scriptures In Judaism, Christianity And Islam.Hermeneutics, Values and Society. (Currents of Encounter 12)

Jerald D. Gort

VROOM, Hendrik M.

Religion & Spirituality

Universal Justice.

Anderson, Albert A.

This book argues that the secret to the political miracle achieved in South Africa is a comprehensive change in the conception of justice as guiding political institutions. Pursuing justice is a moral imperative that has practical value as a cost-efficient way of dealing with conflict. This case study in applied ethics and social theory patiently explains how justice in the new South Africa restores humanity and establishes lasting peace, whereas injustice in apartheid South Africa led to conflict and dehumanization.

Injustice, Violence, And Peace.

Lotter, H.P.P.

Phenomenologists or Continental thinkers argue for the subject-object continuum. For phenomenology, subjectivity is of the object, and object is for the subject. This book applies that continuum to the holistic foundations of work or specialization. The author devotes a chapter to each of eight cultural applications of the subject-object continuum. Chapter One examines the specialist-generalist continuum meaning specialization for general education. That continuum comprises the framework for the remaining seven chapters. Those seven include production for community, design for user, automation for user, computing for society, taxation for society, information for manufacturing, and procedure for goal. These eight applications constitute the basis for a core curriculum. The core curriculum gives holistic meaning, order, or cosmos to all jobs and to all people. Cosmos is a Greek word meaning humanistic-scientific order, irreducible to physics. The core curriculum is fundamental cosmology. Each of the eight continuities follow in a logical, systematic manner from the analytic-subjective continuum meaning object for subjectivity. Phenomenology of education can become the human basis of a promising holistic logic, bringing together analytic and existential themes.

Phenomenology And Education. (Philosophy of Education)

Education & Teaching

Kazanjian, Michael M.

Schools & Teaching

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