This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which ...(展开全部)

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the ca...(展开全部)

Museums have been active in shaping knowledge over the last six hundred years. Yet what is their function within today's society? At the present time when funding is becoming increasingly scarce, difficult questions are being asked about the justification of museums. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge presents a critical nature of museums. Through the examination of case stud...(展开全部)

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. Topics range from the spread of gingko's popularity from East Asia to the West to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro fertilisation regimens, from the modernisation of Chinese a...(展开全部)

Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic diseases. In Mao's Bestiary, Liz P. Y. Chee traces the history of the use of medicinal animals in modern China. While animal part...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase ‘medieval medicine’ sounds horrific to those of us with modern ideas on hygiene, instant pain relief and effective treatments. In those days no one could allay the dread of plague or the many other horrible diseases we have now forgotten. However, the mediev...(展开全部)

"Death and Redemption" offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons - in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instru...(展开全部)

"Death and Redemption" offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps, internal exile, and prisons - in Soviet society. Soviet authorities undoubtedly had the means to exterminate all the prisoners who passed through the Gulag, but unlike the Nazis they did not conceive of their concentration camps as instru...(展开全部)