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A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially
photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate
responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world.
While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in
histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first
impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely
seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical
Sketchbooks brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records
gloriously back into the light. In a series of biographical
portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book
illuminates a range of intriguing characters, from many different
countries and cultures, including Germany, France, Italy, America,
Australia, Japan and China. Sketchbooks proper are joined by
notebooks, journals, albums, loose pieces of paper, works on
vellum, manuscripts, letters, herbarium sheets and marginalia –
even one drawing on the back of an envelope. Turning the pages of
this book will be an invitation to relive extraordinary
experiences, imagine lost worlds, and be immersed in the
endeavours, observations and motivations of the makers of such
beautiful and enchanting art.
A glorious celebration of the beauty, diversity, importance and
sheer wonder of plants, with exquisite illustrations from the
collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Plants feed us,
clothe us, shelter us, help transport us, and can both intoxicate
and cure us. From food staples to exotic and enchanting flowers,
plants are essential for the wellbeing of our selves and our
planet. Helen and William Bynum are expert guides to the intriguing
histories and uses of over 80 key plants. Rich in cultural,
historical, botanical and symbolic associations, the plants, from
every corner of the globe – both familiar and bizarre – have
fascinating stories to tell. Starting with foods that laid the
foundations for the development of civilizations, such as wheat,
rice and maize, and those that enliven our diet, such as saffron
and spices, sections look at plants that have helped to create our
material world, including bamboo and the oak, and crops that have
made people rich, such as tea, coffee and sugar cane. Many plants
have been used medicinally and others, for instance eucalyptus or
giant redwoods, have come to epitomize entire landscapes. Some are
the objects of obsession, including the tulip, the rose and the
lotus, and some are distinctly strange, such as the world’s
largest flower, rafflesia, which smells of rotting flesh! For
anyone interested in the extraordinary beauty and diversity of
flora around us, this stunning book, illustrated with botanical
drawings, paintings and artworks will be an inspiration and a
delight.
An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in
medical knowledge and practice, from ancient Egypt, India and China
to the latest technology. Sickness and health, birth and death,
disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the workings of
our bodies and minds are an inextricable part of how we know who we
are. With science of healing now more vital than ever, as our
bodies face new challenges from the globalization of disease,
environmental change and increased longevity, this timely book is
the best guide ever published to medicine's achievements and its
prospects for the future. An international team of distinguished
experts provide an unrivalled account of the evolution of medical
knowledge and practice from ancient Egypt, India and China to
today's latest technology, from letting blood to keyhole surgery,
from the theory of humours to the genetic revolution, from the
stethoscope to the MRI scanner. They explain medicine's turning
points and conceptual changes in a refreshingly accessible way and
answer some key questions: how has the plague influenced the course
of human history? What effect did the pill have on the lives of
women, and on society as a whole? What challenges does medicine
face in our changing world?
Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been
more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from
the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its
human hosts have been together for a very long time. The very
mention of tuberculosis brings to mind romantic images of great
literary figures pouring out their souls in creative works as their
bodies were being decimated by consumption. It is a disease that at
various times has had a certain glamour associated with it. From
the medieval period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the
history and development of tuberculosis throughout the world,
touching on the various discoveries that have emerged about the
disease over time, and focussing on the experimental approaches of
Jean-Antoine Villemin (1827-92) and Robert Koch (1842-1910). Bynum
also examines the place tuberculosis holds in the popular
imagination and its role in various forms of the dramatic arts. The
story of tuberculosis since the 1950s is complex, and Bynum
describes the picture emerging from the World Health Organization
of the difficulties that attended the management of the disease in
the developing world. In the meantime, tuberculosis has emerged
again in the West, both among the urban underclass and in
association with a new infection - HIV. The disease has returned
with a vengeance - in drug-resistant form. The story of
tuberculosis is far from over.
Sickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine
and our understanding of the workings of our bodies and minds are
an inextricable part of how we know who we are. In this inspiring
compendium, distinguished experts from around the world explain
medicine s turning points and conceptual changes, and answer a
series of key questions: How did the Plague influence the course of
human history? What should complementary medicine s role be? How
did an audacious self-experiment lead to a cure for stomach ulcers
and a Nobel Prize? The book is magnificently illustrated with a
unique array of pictures, from beautiful Renaissance anatomical
drawings to the very latest computer- generated images of viruses
and photographs that reveal the hidden world within our bodies.
Topics include humors & pneumas, Islamic medicine, pathological
anatomy, neuron theory, bedlam & beyond, parasites &
vectors, hormones, the genetic revolution, defibrillators, the
endoscope, medical robots, typhus, tuberculosis, smallpox, HIV, and
more.
Treating and preventing disease has always been one of the most
important tasks in a society, and that task ultimately falls to one
of the most respected and admired figures in any culture--the
healer. This respect is understandable --medical practictioners
ease pain, prolong life, and prevent disesase, making them among
the most important figures in the daily lives of people everywhere.
The Dictionary of Medical Biography provides authoritative
biographical coverage of major medical practitioners in all times
and cultures. While its emphasis is on practitioners within the
Western medical tradition, it also covers practitioners of
alternative medicines, as well as major figures within traditional
Chinese, Indian, and Islamic medicine. In addition, special essays
survey these medical traditions, which are more difficult to
appreciate within a biographical framework. Overall, the Dictionary
of Medical Biography concentrates on the nuances of medical
practice, and the social context within which ideas of health,
disease, and therapy exist. At almost 1.25 million words, the
Dictionary of Medical Biography provides a comprehensive
biographical dictionary of medicine: BLAlmost 1100 entries on
almost every important figure in medicine who ever lived, written
by the leading scholars in the field BLAlmost 400 scholars,
researchers, and physicians contributed to the work, including many
leaders in their medical fields BLExtensive overview essays on the
important medical traditions of the world--e.g. Chinese, Indian,
Islamic BLOver 300 images that depict medical practictioners and
medical practices from around the world BLBibliographies that
provide students and researchers the next step inlearning about
these individuals and their work The most complete work of its
kind, the Dictionary of Medical Biography is essential for any
library that serves those who seek to understand the importance of
medicine in the lives of people everywhere.
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