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  • A Sailor's Odyssey

    The Autobiography of Admiral Andrew Cunningham

    Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of the Admiral was unveiled in Trafalgar Square close by his predecessor in 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh. It was during the dark days of 1940–41, after the surrender of France and Italy's entry into the ... Leer más

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  • The Identity of the History of Science and Medicine

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes and activities with ... Leer más

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  • 'I Follow Aristotle': How William Harvey Discovered the Circulation of the Blood

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578–1657) was a follower of Aristotle, but his most strikingly ‘modern’ and original discovery – of the circulation of the blood – resulted from Harvey following Aristotle’s ancient programme of investigation ... Leer más

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  • The Anatomist Anatomis'd

    An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was practised, what the point ... Leer más

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  • Centres of Medical Excellence?

    Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 1500–1789

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling ... Leer más

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  • The Anatomical Renaissance

    The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients

    The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients. The Moderns' choice of topics and subjects, their aims, and their evaluation of their investigations were ... Leer más

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  • Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe

    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    The Enlightenment period, here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789, is usually considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. With respect to medicine this means that the religious elements in the treatment and interpretation of diseases to all intents and purposes disappeared. However, there are growing indications in recent scholarship that this may ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Making Of Modern Medicine

    Narrado por Andrew Cunningham ...

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    6 hora 47 minutos

    This major new Radio 4 series charts the development of Western medicine and healing from the ancient Greeks to the pioneering organ transplant operations of the 20th Century and beyond. ‘The Making of Modern Medicine’ covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage satires to shed light on the experiences of ... Leer más

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  • Discommunication: Volume 5

    Series Libro 5 - Discommunication
    Once upon a dream, there was a girl just starting out at college and a boy she fell in love with. But despite being a dream, things weren't as perfect as they hoped: When Togawa joins the dream analysis club, she finds the only thing better than one Matsubue... is two Matsubues! ... Leer más

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  • Discommunication: Volume 6

    Series Libro 6 - Discommunication
    Drunken Dreams Determine Devoted DesolationMatsubue and Togawa are on the outs - all because he had a dream about.. himself? But not himself. But still himself. It turns out escaping from the Meikai isn't as easy as anybody hoped for, and even second chance reboots get sucked back when the original's in need. Can this Matsubue save the original? ... Leer más

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  • Discommunication: Volume 1

    Series Libro 1 - Discommunication
    Togawa is dating the resident class weirdo, and their relationship is even more non-standard than she expected! They've never even kissed, but he's tasted her tears, cleaned her ears, and shaved the nape of her neck! And also walked her through a Buddhist ritual that opened her third eye and brought her spiritual peace and a good night's sleep. It is indeed a wonder, in more ways than one, that ... Leer más

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  • Discommunication: Volume 4

    Series Libro 4 - Discommunication
    Togawa leaves our world behind, following Matsubue into the Meikai. There, they encounter a mystery Spiral once worshiped by the ancients. It offers them new, happier lives--or death. Will they ever return to the world from whence they came ... Leer más

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