From Caracas to Stockholm
Title | From Caracas to Stockholm PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Prometheus Books |
Pages | 278 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 161592650X |
From Caracas to Stockholm
Title | From Caracas to Stockholm PDF eBook |
Author | Baruj Benacerraf |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781573922272 |
The memoir of immunologist and 1980 Nobel prize winner Benacerraf. Born in 1920 to a family of Jewish textile importers in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved to Paris at the age of five. He discusses his years studying at the Lycee Janson and the period of the Nazi invasion of France which led the family to flee back to the Americas where he found himself studying medicine in the United States. His years at Harvard, NYU, and the National Institute of Health are examined, as is his time as the chief executive officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Latinos in Science, Math, and Professions
Title | Latinos in Science, Math, and Professions PDF eBook |
Author | David E. Newton |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Hispanic Americans |
ISBN | 1438107862 |
Provides short biographies of more than 175 notable Hispanic American professionals in science, mathematics, medicine, and related fields.
Intolerant Bodies
Title | Intolerant Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Warwick Anderson |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2014-11-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1421415348 |
A history of autoimmunity that validates the experience of patients while challenging assumptions about the distinction between the normal and the pathological. Winner of the NSW Premier's History Award of the Arts NSW Autoimmune diseases, which affect 5 to 10 percent of the population, are as unpredictable in their course as they are paradoxical in their cause. They produce persistent suffering as they follow a drawn-out, often lifelong, pattern of remission and recurrence. Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes—the diseases considered in this book—are but a handful of the conditions that can develop when the immune system goes awry. Intolerant Bodies is a unique collaboration between Ian Mackay, one of the prominent founders of clinical immunology, and Warwick Anderson, a leading historian of twentieth-century biomedical science. The authors narrate the changing scientific understanding of the cause of autoimmunity and explore the significance of having a disease in which one’s body turns on itself. The book unfolds as a biography of a relatively new concept of pathogenesis, one that was accepted only in the 1950s. In their description of the onset, symptoms, and course of autoimmune diseases, Anderson and Mackay quote from the writings of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Heller, Flannery O’Connor, and other famous people who commented on or grappled with autoimmune disease. The authors also assess the work of the dedicated researchers and physicians who have struggled to understand the mysteries of autoimmunity. Connecting laboratory research, clinical medicine, social theory, and lived experience, Intolerant Bodies reveals how doctors and patients have come to terms, often reluctantly, with this novel and puzzling mechanism of disease causation.
Jews and Medicine
Title | Jews and Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Heynick |
Publisher | KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Pages | 788 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780881257731 |
From the Middle East B.C.E. to medieval Spain through the end of WWII, Frank Heynick traces the relationship between a people and a science in Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga. The ancient ritual of circumcision, Maimonides, the Bavarian Jacob Henle and Nobel-winner Otto Loewi make appearances in this sweeping history of literary, religious and professional links between Judaism and medical practice. Heynick, a scholar of medical history and linguistics, discusses the sale of mummified remains as a cure for disease, the ascendance of psychoanalysis and hundreds of other famous and obscure historical moments. -Publisher's Weekly.
Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman
Title | Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Jill Levine |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2022-08-23 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374610770 |
Manuel Puig & The Spider Woman tells the life story of the innovative and flamboyant novelist and playwright himself. Suzanne Jill Levine, his principal English translator, draws upon years of friendship as well as copious research and interviews in her remarkable book, the first biography of the inimitable writer. Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentinian author of Kiss of the Spider Woman and pioneer of high camp, stands alone in the pantheon of contemporary Latin American literature. Strongly influenced by Hollywood films of the thirties and forties, his many-layered novels and plays integrate serious fiction and popular culture, mixing political and sexual themes with B-movie scenarios. When his first two novels were published in the late 1960s, they delighted the public but were dismissed as frivolous by the leftist intellectuals of the Boom; his third novel was banned by the Peronist government for irreverence. His influence was already felt, though-even by writers who had dismissed him-and by the time the film version of Kiss of the Spider Woman became a worldwide hit, he was a renowned literary figure. Puig's way of life was as unconventional as his fiction: he spoke of himself in the female form in Spanish, renamed his friends for his favorite movie stars, referred to his young male devotees as "daughters," and, as a perennial expatriate, lived (often with his mother) everywhere from Rome to Rio de Janeiro.
American Book Publishing Record
Title | American Book Publishing Record PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1276 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | American literature |
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