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Henry E. Sigerist

Correspondences with Welch, Cushing, Garrison, and Ackerknecht

By: Henry Ernest Sigerist,Marcel H. Bickel

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Henry E. Sigerist

Correspondences with Welch, Cushing, Garrison, and Ackerknecht

By: Henry Ernest Sigerist,Marcel H. Bickel

Henry E. Sigerist (1891-1957) is known as the most influential medical historian in the first half of the 20th century. More than that he was a scholar of an unusually broad spectrum of activities. 50 years after his death he is still the subject of publications. During his active life in Zurich, Leipzig, Baltimore, and again in Switzerland he exchanged letters with some 300 correspondents of all walks of cultural life. The letters to Sigerist as well as the copies of his own letters are preserved in near completeness, a fact that allowed an unabridged and annotated edition. This volume contains Sigerist's correspondences with the architect of American medicine, William H. Welch, the pioneer brain surgeon, Harvey Cushing, the medical bibliographer, Fielding H. Garrison, and the medical historian, Erwin H. Ackerknecht. The letters allow insight into the correspondents' biographies and activities, their private lives, and relationships between persons, topics, and books. They also reflect the eventful time of the mid-20th century. To each of the four correspondences is added an introduction and indices of literary works and of persons mentioned.

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3034303203

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Correspondences with Welch, Cushing, Garrison, and Ackerknecht

By: Henry Ernest Sigerist,Marcel H. Bickel

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Civilization and Disease

By: Henry E. Sigerist

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Civilization and Disease

By: Henry E. Sigerist

Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impact that disease has had on societies throughout human history. Despite considerable advances in both medicine and historiography, Civilization and Disease remains a landmark work in the history of medicine and a fascinating look at, first, civilization as a factor in the genesis and spread of disease, and second, the effects of disease on such aspects of civilization as economics, social life, law, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts. In a new foreword written for this edition, Elizabeth Fee outlines Sigerist’s life, works, and legacy as a historian, a teacher, and an advocate for universal health care, hailing Civilization and Disease as "an excellent introduction to Sigerist’s work.

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Cornell University Press

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1501723448

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Studies in the History of Science

By: E. A. Speiser,Otto E. Neugebauer,Hermann Ranke,Henry E. Sigerist,Richard H. Shryock,Evarts A. Graham,Edgar A. Singer,Hermann Weyl

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Studies in the History of Science

By: E. A. Speiser,Otto E. Neugebauer,Hermann Ranke,Henry E. Sigerist,Richard H. Shryock,Evarts A. Graham,Edgar A. Singer,Hermann Weyl

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512818801

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9781512818802

The Sage of Seville

Ibn Zuhr, His Time, and His Medical Legacy

By: Henry A. Azar

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The Sage of Seville

Ibn Zuhr, His Time, and His Medical Legacy

By: Henry A. Azar

Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar) of twelfth-century Seville was the most important physician of Muslim Spain. His family boasted six generations of physicians, and also included midwives, jurists, poets, and viziers. His Kitab al-taysir, a compendium of therapeutics, was translated into Latin and Hebrew; its Latin version, Liber Teisir, served as a companion book to the Colliget, the Latin translation of Kitab al-kulliyat, a largely theoretical book of the philosopher-physician Ibn Rushd (Averroes). The rabbi-physician Maimonides quoted extensively from Ibn Zuhr and considered him "unique in his age and one of the great sages." But Ibn Zuhr was not just a keen observer of patients and a dispenser of remedies: buried within his generally dry narrative are candid recollections and views on a variety of subjects and of his society. And his medical recipes could be compared to current forms of alternative medicine. Together, his holistic approach to medicine and his spontaneous vignettes make him one of the most refreshing physicians of any age. This account of the life and legacy of Ibn Zuhr, the first of its kind, reveals the man and his world, his importance in his own times, and his relevance to our world today. Against a modern culture of often impersonal, bureaucratized, and costly health care, Ibn Zuhr's embodiment of the wisdom of the ages and his role as healer-priest can be an inspiration.

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9774161556

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Civilization and Disease

By: Henry E. Sigerist

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Civilization and Disease

Civilization and Disease

Studies in the History of Science

Studies in the History of Science

The Sage of Seville

The Sage of Seville

Civilization and Disease

Civilization and Disease

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