The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease : Case Histories by K. Codell Carter
--------------------------------------------------------------- Author: K. Codell Carter Page Count: 248 pages Published Date: 07 Jan 2003 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Country: United Kingdom Language: English ISBN: 9780754606789 File size: 39 Mb File Name: the.rise.of.causal.concepts.of.disease.case.histories.pdf Download Link: the rise of causal concepts of disease case histories --------------------------------------------------------------- Much of contemporary medical theory and practice focuses on the identification of specific causes of disease. However, this has not always been the case: until the early nineteenth century physicians thought of diseases in quite different terms. The modern quest for causes of disease can be seen as a single Lakatosian research programme. One can track the rise and elaboration of this programme by a series of case histories. The success of work on bacterial diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis tends to eclipse the broad context in which those studies were embedded. Yet, in the 1830s, fifty years before Koch's publications on tuberculosis, specific causes were already being identified for several non-bacterial diseases including scabies, muscardine and ringworm. Moreover, by the end of the century, the quest for specific causes had spread well beyond bacterial diseases. The expanding research programme included Freud's early work on psychopathology, the discovery of viruses, the discovery of vitamins, and the recognition of genetic disorders such as Down's syndrome. Existing historical discussions of research in these areas, for example, histories of work on the deficiencies diseases, take the view that success in bacteriology was a positive obstacle to the identification of causes for other kinds of diseases. Treating the quest for causes as a single coherent research programme provides a better understanding of the disease concepts that characterise the last 150 years of medical thought. Read online The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease : Case Histories Buy The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease : Case Histories Download The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease : Case Histories for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease : Case Histories ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Related links: The Mahabharata: English Version Based on Selected Verses : An English version based on selected verses ebookDownload ebook Cobalt Blue Glass Visiting Feelings download ebook cc tiberium wars patch 1.04 Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China pdf Insight Guides: Russia downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI Download pdf Michael Powell : International Perspectives on an English Film-maker assassin's creed black flag patch 1.02 download
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