Book ID: CBB288323740

Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History (2018)

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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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Review Keir Waddington (2020) Review of "Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History". Social History of Medicine (pp. 661-662). unapi

Review Keir Waddington (2020) Review of "Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History". Social History of Medicine (pp. 349-350). unapi

Review Thibaut Serviant-Fine (2020) Review of "Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 55). unapi

Review Joël Coste (2020) Review of "Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments, and History". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 151-152). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Fantini, Bernardino
Duffin, Jacalyn M.
Coste, Joël
Cappelletti, Vincenzo
Basso Lorini, Elisabetta
Méthot, P-O.
Concepts
Historians of science, modern
History of medicine, as a discipline
Biographies
Historiography
Philosophy of medicine
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
France
Europe
Republic of Liberia
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Singapore
United States
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