Diphtheria Serum As A Technological Object
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Diphtheria Serum As A Technological Object
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Author : Jonathan Simon
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-27
Diphtheria Serum As A Technological Object written by Jonathan Simon and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-27 with Philosophy categories.
Introduced in 1894 as a treatment for a deadly childhood disease, the diphtheria serum stands as a milestone in pharmaceutical history. Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 considers the production and use of this serum in France, analyzing the drug in terms of a technological object. To do this, Jonathan Simon draws on the philosophy of technology, exploring the application of this approach to medical drugs and suggesting how such an analysis can in turn contribute to this domain of philosophy. Starting with the manufacture of the serum from horses’ blood, Simon then considers the processes involved in transforming the blood serum into a legal medical drug and establishing its efficacy as a treatment against diphtheria. The book looks at the place the drug assumed in French society at the time, as well as the legal and political implications of its manufacture and use. All these elements are deployed to characterize a specifically French serum, as the author argues that the constitution of the drug in its full sense is not only technical but also social, political, and legal. Considering the serum as technological object facilitates a philosophical reflection on the nature of medical drugs in general by means of a thorough analysis of this particular historical example. The insights offered in this book will be of interest to students and scholars working on the philosophy of technology, particularly the medical sciences, as well as to historians of medicine, particularly those interested in the history of pharmacy.
The Immunity Unit For Standardizing Diphtheria Antitoxin Based On Ehrlich S Normal Serum
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Author : M. J. Rosenau
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-12-21
The Immunity Unit For Standardizing Diphtheria Antitoxin Based On Ehrlich S Normal Serum written by M. J. Rosenau and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with Science categories.
Excerpt from The Immunity Unit for Standardizing Diphtheria Antitoxin (Based on Ehrlich's Normal Serum): Official Standard Prepared Under the Act Approved July 1, 1902 The object of this bulletin is to describe the methods by which the immunity unit for measuring the strength of diphtheria antitoxin is obtained, and the principles involved. The unit is based on the one established by Ehrlich, and has been made by comparison with the normal serum sent to this laboratory by the Kg]. Pr. Institut fur experimentelle Therapie, Frankfurt a. M., Germany. On account of the technical difficulties met in testing the strength of diphtheria antitoxin, and the intricate composition of the diphtheria poison, as well as the peculiar chemical relations existing between the toxine and the antitoxin, it has been necessary to enter into the many details of every portion of the process in order that those who use this standard may do so under the same conditions. Otherwise com parable results would not be obtained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Treatment Of Diphtheria By Antitoxin Classic Reprint
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Author : William Henry Welch
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-09-08
The Treatment Of Diphtheria By Antitoxin Classic Reprint written by William Henry Welch and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-08 with Medical categories.
Excerpt from The Treatment of Diphtheria by Antitoxin I shall endeavor in this paper, after a brief historical introduction to present some of the more important general considerations bearing upon the treatment of diphtheria by antitoxic serum, together with statistics of results already reported, with the expectation that those who are to follow in this discussion before the Association will be able to offer the results of personal experience in the application of the new remedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Pasteur S Empire
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Author : Aro Velmet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020
Pasteur S Empire written by Aro Velmet and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Why did "microbe hunters" at the Pasteur Institute become the most important health experts in the French empire in the early twentieth century? Pasteur's Empire illustrates how French microbiologists transformed life in the colonies in the name of humanitarian public health, which often had grave consequences for those living under French rule.
Animal Constructions And Technological Knowledge
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Author : Ashley Shew
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-09-20
Animal Constructions And Technological Knowledge written by Ashley Shew and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Philosophy categories.
Animal studies literature, and its public consumption have sparked interest in questions about humanity. Most scholars aim these studies to help us sort out how we should regard other creatures and how we should understand ourselves in light of their capacities. This book offers something a little different, investigating the conceptual limits of tool-use and technology through the lens of technological knowledge. Making sense of animal studies can be tricky because of long-held and culturally pervasive beliefs and messages about human triumph over nature (where animals are considered to be part of nature). Animal Constructions and Technological Knowledge, considers animal tool use, techniques, and construction within the context of theories about what constitutes technology and what constitutes knowledge. With reference to an engaging variety of animal case studies, primarily from research on apes, dolphins, and crows, this book shows how concepts from philosophy of technology can be used to make better sense of the animal cases. These animal cases also help us to refine our philosophical concepts, creating more careful distinction and uniting different accounts of technological knowledge.
Unframing Martin Heidegger S Understanding Of Technology
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Author : Søren Riis, Roskilde University
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-08-15
Unframing Martin Heidegger S Understanding Of Technology written by Søren Riis, Roskilde University and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Philosophy categories.
This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger’s most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding Heidegger’s notion of modern technology.
Sustainability In The Anthropocene
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Author : Róisín Lally
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-04-29
Sustainability In The Anthropocene written by Róisín Lally and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-29 with Philosophy categories.
We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal of life on the planet but also our understanding of who we are and our relation to the natural world. In the face of this crisis it has become clear that we need a more sustainable culture. In fact the language of sustainability has become pervasive in our culture and has deeply ingrained itself in our understanding of what living a good life would entail. “Sustainability,” however, is a contested word, and it carries with it, often implicitly and unacknowledged, deep philosophical claims that are entangled with all kinds of assumptions and power relations, some of them very problematic. This book attempts to set this urgent goal of sustainability free from its more reductive and harmful interpretations and to thereby apply a more thoughtful environmental ethics to current and emerging technologies, particularly those involving reproduction and the harnessing of energy that dominate our elemental relations to sun and air, wind and water, earth and forest. The book is divided into 4 sections: (1) Sustainability: A Contested Term, (2) Sustainability and Renewable Technologies: Sun, Air, Wind, Water, (3) Sustainability and Design, and (4) Sustainability and Ethics. The first section sets the context for our studies and opens a space for thinking sustainability in a more thoughtful way than is often the case in contemporary discussions. The next two sections are the heart of our contribution to postphenomenology and technoscience, and the essays, here, turn to concrete examinations of particular technologies and questions of technological design in the light of our environmental crisis. The fourth section closes the book by drawing some more general implications for ethics from the intersection of the foregoing themes.
Feedback Loops
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Author : Andrew Wells Garnar
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Feedback Loops written by Andrew Wells Garnar and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Philosophy categories.
In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of rethinking the relationships among science, technology, education, and society. Through critiquing and exploring the work of philosopher of science and technology Joseph C. Pitt, the authors featured in this volume investigate the complexities of contemporary technoscience, writing on topics ranging from super-computing to pedagogy, engineering to biotechnology patents, and scientific instruments to disability studies. Taken together, these chapters develop an argument about the necessity of using pragmatism to foster a more productive relationship among science, technology and society.
Postphenomenology And Media
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Author : Yoni Van Den Eede
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-06-23
Postphenomenology And Media written by Yoni Van Den Eede and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-23 with Philosophy categories.
Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can be explored postphenomenologically and showcases research at the cutting edge of philosophy of media and technology. The contributors together enlarge the range of thinking about human-media-world relations in contemporary society, reflecting the interdisciplinary range of this school of thought, and explore, sometimes self-reflexively and sometimes critically, the provocative landscape of postphenomenology and media.
Explorations In Baltic Medical History 1850 2015
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Author : Nils Hansson
language : en
Publisher: Rochester Studies in Medical H
Release Date : 2019
Explorations In Baltic Medical History 1850 2015 written by Nils Hansson and has been published by Rochester Studies in Medical H this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with History categories.
Examines medical history in northern Europe from 1850 to 2015 and sheds new light on the circulation of medical knowledge in that region