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Pathological Realities - Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (Paperback)
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Pathological Realities - Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (Paperback)
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Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures
in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer
of the field. The singular trajectory that took Grmek from
Yugoslavia to the academic culture of post-war France placed him at
the crossroads of different intellectual trends and made him an
influential figure during the second half of the twentieth century.
Yet, scholars have rarely attempted to articulate his distinctive
vision of the history of science and medicine with all its
tensions, contradictions, and ambiguities. This volume brings
together and publishes for the first time in English a range of
Grmek's writings, providing a portrait of his entire career as a
historian of science and an engaged intellectual figure.
Pathological Realities pieces together Grmek's scholarship that
reveals the interconnections of diseases, societies, and medical
theories. Straddling the sciences and the humanities, Grmek crafted
significant new concepts and methods to engage with contemporary
social problems such as wars, genocides and pandemics. Uniting some
major strands of his published work that are still dispersed or
simply unknown, this volume covers the deep epistemological changes
in historical conceptions of disease as well as major advances
within the life sciences and their historiography. Opening with a
classic essay - "Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases,"
this volume introduces Grmek's notions of "pathocenosis" and
"emerging infections," illustrating them with historical and
contemporary cases. Pathological Realities also showcases Grmek's
pioneering approach to the history of science and medicine using
laboratory notebooks as well as his original work on biological
thought and the role of ideologies and myths in the history of
science. The essays assembled here reveal Grmek's significant
influence and continued relevance for current research in the
history of medicine and biology, medical humanities, science
studies, and the philosophy of science.
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