Author: William Black
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Observations Medical and Political on the Small-pox and the Advantages and Disadvantages of General Inoculation Especially in Cities, and on the Mortality of Mankind at Every Age in City and Country...
Author: William Black
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Vital Accounts
Author: Andrea A. Rusnock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521803748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521803748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Rusnock shows how vital accounts became the measure of public health and welfare.
Science and Society in Early America
Author: Randolph Shipley Klein
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,"The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871691668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio.; Benjamin Franklin,"The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright; Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd; William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot; The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein; The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini; Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer," The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II; The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang; Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran; The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle; A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan; Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass; & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.
A Master of Science History
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400726260
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400726260
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
Genetics in the Madhouse
Author: Theodore M. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
The Insurance Cyclopaedia
Author: Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The Insurance Cyclopaedia. Being a Dictionary ... a Biographical Summary ... a Bibliographical Repertory ... an Historical Treasury ...
Author: Encyclopaedias
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Insurance Cyclopáedia: Being a Dictionary of the Definition of Terms Used in Connexion with the Theory and Practice of Insurance in All Its Branches
Author: Cornelius Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Insurance Cyclopeadia
Author: Cornelius Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Science and Society in Early America
Author: Randolph Shipley Klein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871691668
Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780871691668
Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description