Research Catalog

Title

Medicine and change : historical and sociological studies of medical innovation = L'innovation en médecine : études historiques et sociologiques / ed. by Ilana Löwy...[et al.].

Publication

Montrouge, France : John Libbey Eurotext ; Paris : Inserm, c1993.

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Additional Authors

Löwy, Ilana, 1948-

Description

xiii, 470 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Colloque INSERM, 0768-3154 ; v. 220

Uniform Title

Colloques de l'Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale ; no 220.

Alternative Title

• Innovation en médecine : études historiques et sociologiques
• Innovation en médecine
• Innovation en médecine : études historiques et sociologiques

Subject

• Diffusion of Innovation > congresses
• History of Medine, 20th Cent. > congresses
• History, 19th Century > congresses
• Medical innovations > History
• Medical innovations > Social aspects
• Medicine > trends > congresses

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Proceedings of the symposium INSERM, held in Paris, 21-23 April 1992.
• French summaries.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The biographical and the analytical: towards a historical model of science and practice in modern medicine / John V. Pickstone -- Gérard van Swieten and the innovation of physical diagnosis / Malcolm Nicolson -- Electrodiagnosis and electrotherapy in France around 1850 / Roselyne Rey -- Depiction in medicine as a two-way affair: X-ray pictures and pulmonary tuberculosis in the early twentieth century / Bernike Pasveer -- What is new?, Doppler and its others: an empirical philosophy of innovations / Annemarie Mol -- The construction of the "battered-child syndrome": a comparison between two analytical frameworks / Babette Convert -- From pain to person: a new object for medicine / Isabelle Baszanger -- Ferenczi's innovations in the field of psychoanalysis (1919-1932) / Michèle Bertrand -- Between medicine and science: the research career of Oswald T. Avery / Olga Amsterdamska --^
• Oncogenes as metaphorrs for human cancer: articulating laboratory practices and medical demands / Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- The making of a biological discovery: the case of the second messenger concept / Christiane Sinding -- What makes scientific endeavour into a progressive enterprise?: the case of computerized diagnostic research / Renan Springer de Freitas -- Academic debate and therapeutic reasoning in mid-19th century France / George Weisz -- Treatments for pneumonia in Britain, 1910-1940 / Michael Worboys -- Innovation and legitimation strategies: the story of the New York Cancer Research Institute / Ilana Löwy -- Scientific medicine of cancer and new schemata of thought / Patrice Pinell -- Medical chemistry and clinical medicine: academics and the scientisation of medical practice in Britain, 1900-1925 / Steve Sturdy --^
• The case of untraceable Alzheimer patients: medical practices and intellectual traditions of psychiatrists and geriatrists in the Netherlands, 1900-1988 / Ad A.M. Prins -- Gender and the irrelevance of medical innovation: the social construction of suicide as a male behavior in nineteenth century psychiatry / Howard I. Kushner -- Medicine and the Holocaust: the case of typhus / Paul Weindling.

ISBN

• 2742000100 (John Libbey Eurotext)
• 2855985080 (Inserm)

LCCN

^^^94161063^

OCLC

28882877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library