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Cover 1 Pathological Realities 2 Title 6 Copyright 7 CONTENTS 8 Foreword 10 Editor and Translator’s Note 14 Introduction: Mirko Grmek’s Investigative Pathway 18 Part I. Pathocenosis: Diseases in History 46 1. Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases 48 2. The Concept of Emerging Disease 58 3. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses 72 Part II. Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences 90 4. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 92 5. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 103 6. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes 121 Part III. History of Science: The Laboratory of Epistemology 138 7. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth 140 Part IV. Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory 172 8. A Memoricide 174 9. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens 176 Acknowledgments 184 Notes 188 Bibliography 234 Index 264

Author

Grmek, Mirko D.;Methot, Pierre-Olivier;Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg;

Language

EN