Book ID: CBB000079014

Greater than the parts: Holism in biomedicine, 1920-1950 (1998)

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Lawrence, Christopher (Editor)
Weisz, George M. (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xiii + 366 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Lawrence, Christopher, Weisz, George: Medical holism: The context. Harrington, Anne: Kurt Goldstein's neurology of healing and wholeness: A Weimar story. Prüll, Cay-Rüdiger: Holism and German pathology (1914-1933). Weisz, George: A moment of synthesis: Medical holism in France between the Wars. Lawrence, Christopher: Still incommunicable: Clinical holists and medical knowledge in interwar Britain. Sturdy, Steve: Hippocrates and state medicine: George Newman outlines the founding policy of the Ministry of Health. Brown, Theodore M.: George Canby Robinson and “the patient as a person”. Tracy, Sarah W.: An evolving science of man: The transformation and demise of American constitutional medicine, 1920-1950. Pressman, Jack D.: Human understanding: Psychosomatic medicine and the mission of the Rockefeller Foundation. Jacyna, L.S.: Questions of identity: Science, aesthetics, and Henry's head. Young, Allan: Walter Cannon and the psychophysiology of fear. Löwy, Ilana: “The terrain is all”: Metchinikoff's heritage at the Pasteur Institute, from Besredka's “antivirus” to Bardach's “orthobiotic serum”. Keating, Peter: Holistic bacteriology: Ludwik Hirszfeld's doctrine of serogenesis between the two World Wars. Mendelsohn, J. Andrew: From eradication to equilibrium: How epidemics became complex after World War I. Rosenberg, Charles E.: Holism in 20th-century medicine.


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Authors & Contributors
Benison, Saul
Wolfe, Elin L.
Barger, A. Clifford
Moya-Diez, Ivan
Walker-Smith, J. A.
Verhoeff, Berend
Concepts
Medicine
Human physiology
Psychology
Disease and diseases
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21st century
19th century
Places
Germany
British Isles
Poland
Latin America
Mexico
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Harvard University
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