<p>Review\n“In the late summer of 1861, a small but frightening epidemic of yellow fever struck the French Atlantic port of Saint Nazaire. Coleman offers close scrutiny of this epidemic, and of related earlier and contemporary experiences with yellow fever, using their histories to determine how epidemics were analyzed. Students and scholars in the history of science, medicine,and public health will welcome Coleman’s close analysis.”—Bulletin of the History of Medicine</p>

Yellow Fever in the North: The Methods of Early Epidemiology (Volume 6) (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine)

Coleman, William

History

University of Wisconsin Press

Yellow Fever in the North: The Methods of Epidemiology (Wisconsin Publications in the History of Science and Medicine)

Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization (Routledge Key Guides)

Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of globalization including:  Manuel Castells  Joseph Stiglitz  David Held  Jan Aart Scholte Each thinker’s contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of politics and international relations, economics, sociology, history, anthropology and literary studies.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sajed, Alina

Sociology

Routledge

<p>Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization is an outstanding guide to often-encountered thinkers whose ideas have shaped, defined and influenced this new and rapidly growing field. The authors clearly and lucidly survey the life, work and impact of fifty of the most important theorists of globalization including:</p> <ul>
<li>Manuel Castells </li> <li>Joseph Stiglitz </li> <li>David Held </li> <li>Jan Aart Scholte</li>
</ul>
<p>Each thinker’s contribution to the field is evaluated and assessed, and each entry includes a helpful guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of politics and international relations, economics, sociology, history, anthropology and literary studies.</p>

The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of subsequent activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of essential themes in this development. To one group of nineteenth-century biologists, largely comprised of anatomists, histologists and embryologists, the appearance and constituent structures of the plant or animal body seemed all-important; they studied organic form and the means by which it was brought into being. A second group concentrated on the vital processes diversely exhibited by all living creatures. They studied function, their self-assigned task as physiologists being to understand the innermost workings of the body. To a third group of workers the greatest concern was the relationship, past and present, between the various kinds of plants  and animals and between living things and their changing environment; in studying the transformation of life over vast spans of time, they largely recast the scientific objectives of natural history. Form, function, and transformation thus offer useful vantage points from which to observe the development of the life sciences during the nineteenth century, and it is on a discussion of these themes and their interactions that Professor Coleman's account is based.

Biology in the nineteenth century: Problems of form, function, and transformation (History of science)

Medical Books

wiley

<p><div>The seven distinguished contributors to this volume illuminate not only the history of the biological and medical sciences but also the relationship between institutes and ideas which characterized the explosion of scientific investigation, especially in Germany. Besides William Coleman and Frederic L. Holmes, they include Robert G. Frank, Jr., Timothy Lenoir, John E. Lesch, Kathryn M. Olesko, and Arlene M. Tuchman. Scientific investigation was not new to the nineteenth century, but it was during that period that it began to be carried out on a scale large enough to become crucial to the welfare of nations. Much remains to be learned about how the forms of organization characteristic of the modern investigative enterprise originated. This book explores such questions in relation to one of the dominant experimental sciences of the century, physiology. Each author shows, through the examination of a specific institute or a specific subject, that the interplay between research, pedagogy, personal vision, and state or public interests can be studied to particular advantage in localized settings.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.</div></p>

Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine

Holmes, Frederic L.

University of California Press

The Investigative Enterprise: Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-Century Medicine

Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)

<p>The term 'biology' first appeared in a footnote in an obscure German medical publication of 1800, but a century of subsequent activity was needed to create a thriving science. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of essential themes in this development. To one group of nineteenth-century biologists, largely comprised of anatomists, histologists and embryologists, the appearance and constituent structures of the plant or animal body seemed all-important; they studied organic form and the means by which it was brought into being. A second group concentrated on the vital processes diversely exhibited by all living creatures. They studied function, their self-assigned task as physiologists being to understand the innermost workings of the body. To a third group of workers the greatest concern was the relationship, past and present, between the various kinds of plants and animals and between living things and their changing environment; in studying the transformation of life over vast spans of time, they largely recast the scientific objectives of natural history. Form, function, and transformation thus offer useful vantage points from which to observe the development of the life sciences during the nineteenth century, and it is on a discussion of these themes and their interactions that Professor Coleman's account is based.</p>

Science & Math

Cambridge University Press

Biological Sciences

Georges Cuvier, Zoologist: A Study in the History of Evolution Theory

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Harvard University Press

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