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  • A Woman's Disease

    The history of cervical cancer

    by Ilana Lowy ...
    Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this disease was identified with the most dreaded aspects of malignancies: prolonged invalidity and chronic pain, but also physical degradation, shame and ... Read more

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  • Tangled Diagnoses

    Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

    by Ilana Löwy ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of that medical attention, but prenatal diagnosis in its present form, which couples scrutiny of the fetus with the option to terminate pregnancy, ... Read more

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  • The Polish School of Philosophy of Medicine

    From Tytus Chalubinski (1820–1889) to Ludwik Fleck (1896–1961)

    Edited by Ilana Löwy ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    My 'discovery' of the Polish School of philosophy of medicine stemmed from my studies in the genesis of Ludwik Fleck's epistemology. These studies, and my interest in the scientific roots of Fleck's epistemology were a nearly 'natural' result of my own biography: like Fleck I had been trained, an had worked as an immunologist, and had later switched to studies in the social history of medicine and ... Read more

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  • Heredity and Infection

    The History of Disease Transmission

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Ideas about the transmission of disease have long formed the core of modern biology and medicine. Heredity and Infection examines their development over the last century. Two scientific revolutions - the bacteriological revolution of the 1890s and the genetic revolution at the start of the twentieth century - acted as the catalysts of major change in our understanding of the causes of illness. As ... Read more

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