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Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Identity Or History?
Martin Davies draws parallels between Herz's personal life and Prussian politics and culture to make sense of the end of the eighteenth century when Enlightenment tradition and Romantic thought coincided.
Affinity, That Elusive Dream
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain, and a subject of investigation. Goethe's Elective Affinities, which was based on the current understanding of chemical affinities, attests to chemistry's presence in the public imagination. In Affinity, That Elusive Dream, Mi Gyung Kim restores chemical affinity to its proper place in historiography and in Enlightenment public culture. The Chemical Revolution is usually associated with Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, who introduced a modern nomenclature and a definitive text. Kim argues that chemical affinity was erased fr...
The Perils of Peace
An archive-based study examining how the four Allies - Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union - prepared for and conducted their occupation of Germany after its defeat in 1945. Uses the case of public health to shed light on the complexities of the immediate post-war period.
Pious Traders in Medicine
This book tells the story of two generations of Pietist ministers sent from Halle, in Brandenburg Prussia during the eighteenth century, to the German communities of North America. In conjunction with their clerical office, these ministers provided medical services using pharmaceuticals and medical texts brought with them from Europe. Their practice is an example of how different medical markets and medical cultures evolved in North America. At the heart of the story is the Francke Orphanage, a famous religious and philanthropic foundation started in Halle in 1696. Pharmaceuticals from Halle were manufactured and sold throughout Europe as part of a commercial enterprise designed to support F...
Elegant Anatomy
In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. The author introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis, as these historical medical collections may seem strange, and undeniably have a morbid aesthetic, yet are neither curiosities nor art. As this book deals with issues related to the keeping and displaying of historical human remains, it is highly relevant for material culture and museum studies, cultural history, the history of scientific collections and the history of medicine alike. Unlike existing literature on historical anatomical collections, this book takes the objects in the collections as its starting point, instead of the people that created them.
Anatomie
An Selbstbewusstsein hat es den Anatomen des 18. Jahrhunderts nicht gemangelt. Sie sahen sich als Perfektionisten, als Vollender ihrer Kunst. In der Tat erm�glichten technische Innovationen Einblicke in den menschlichen K�rper, die zu neuen Ansichten und Konzepten fuehrten. Gleichzeitig ueberwand die Anatomie die Grenzen einer rein medizinischen Wissenschaft. In der Rechtsprechung gewann sie an Bedeutung, und bildende Kunst und Literatur wurden vom anatomischen Diskurs beeinflusst und gepr�gt. Dennoch - trotz ihrer unbestreitbaren Erfolge war die Anatomie in der Bev�lkerung gefuerchtet und verrufen. Das Ende eines Menschen auf dem Sektionstisch galt als unehrenhaft. Der Band stellt in fuenf Sektionen die Vielschichtigkeit der Anatomie des 18. Jahrhunderts dar. �The volume uncovers some new ground previously � neglected (�). In summary, this is a competent conference volume�� German Studies Review .
Lessing Yearbook XXVII
This official publication of the Lessing Society, is a source of information on German culture, literature and thought in the 18th century.
Uroscopy in Early Modern Europe
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was taught at the best universities. Leading physicians prided themselves on their mastery in this field. Countless medical writings were dedicated to uroscopy and artists represented it in hundreds of illustrations and paintings. Based on a wide range of textual and visual sources, such as autobiographies, court records, medical treatises and genre painting, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the place of uroscopy in early modern medicine, culture and society and of the - gradually changing - ways in which medical practitioners, lay persons and, last but not least, artists perceived and used it.
