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The Biological Sciences in the Twentieth Century
In this companion to the volume on physical sciences, nearly 400 bandw illustrations chronicle the development of biological sciences in the 20th century. Included are photographs of people, equipment, experiments in progress, and work settings, as well as reproductions of manuscript pages, optical and electronic micrographs, paintings, sketches, and cartoons. The chapters, each with a brief introduction, are arranged in sections that cover the state of the field at the beginning of the period; experimental methods; the transformation of natural history into such disciplines as paleontology, embryology, and ecology; the life processes, such as structure, molecular biology, and the origin of life; research on humans; applications to social needs; and an overview of the field and its effects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine
Essays by leading researchers on the nature and genesis of laboratory medicine.
Testosterone Dreams
Testosterone has inspired dreams—of restored youth, recharged sexual appetites, faster running, quicker thinking, bigger muscles—since it was first synthesized in 1935. This provocative book investigates the complex, bizarre, and sometimes outrageous history of synthetic testosterone and other male hormone therapies. Exploring many little-known social arenas—both inside and outside the medical world—in which these substances are becoming increasingly available and accepted, Testosterone Dreams examines the implications and dangers of their use in professional sports, in the workplace, in our sex lives, and beyond. Testosterone Dreams tells the story of testosterone's growing and some...
Offal: Rejected and Reclaimed Food
Contains the proceedings from the 2016 Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery focusing on offal.
The Medical Mandarins
This wide-ranging and imaginative book examines the social and scientific role of the French Academy of Medicine from its creation in 1820 to the outbreak of the Second World War. The first chapters focus on the institution and its activities, including the evaluation of medical innovations and the cultivation of professional memory through eulogies and institutional art. Weisz argues that the Academy was gradually transformed from a low-status public institution that was central to French medical science in the nineteenth century to an "establishment" institution largely irrelevant to medical science but playing a key role in public health policy. The second half of the book uses the activi...
A Mind of Its Own
Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the source of satisfaction or the root of all earthly troubles, the penis has forced humanity to wrestle with its enduring mysteries. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that gives context to the central role of the penis in Western civilization. A man can hold his manhood in his hand, but who is really gripping whom? Is the penis the best in man -- or the beast? How is man supposed to use it? And when does that use become abuse? Of all the bodily organs, only the penis forces man to confront such contradictions: something insistent yet reluctant, a tool that creates but also destroys, a part of the body that often seems ap...
Medicine and the Five Senses
From ancient Greece to the CAT scanner, these essays examine the 'education of the senses' in medical diagnosis and treatment.
