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'I FOLLOW ARISTOTLE': HOW WILLIAM HARVEY DISCOVERED THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578–1657) was a follower of Aristotle, but his most strikingly ‘modern’ and original discovery – of the circulation of the blood – resulted from Harvey following Aristotle’s ancient programme...

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A SAILOR'S ODYSSEY

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of the Admiral was unveiled in Trafalgar Square close by his predecessor in 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh. It was during the dark days of 1940–41, after the surrender of France and Ita...

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MEDICINE FROM THE BLACK DEATH TO THE FRENCH DISEASE

ROGER FRENCH / JON ARRIZABALAGA / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM / LUIS GARCÍA-BALLESTER

Published in 1998, covering the period from the triumphant economic revival of Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, this book offers an examination of the state of contemporary medicine and the subsequent transplantation of European medicine worldwide. ...

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INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN NGOS AND STATE RELATIONS

ANDREW J. CUNNINGHAM

International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity examines the often discordant relationship between states and international non-governmental organisations working in the humanitarian sector. INGOs aiming to provide assistance to populations suﬀering from the consequences of conﬂicts and other human-made disasters work in the midst of very ...

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THE IDENTITY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

In these essays, Andrew Cunningham is concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present. Historians usually tend to assume such continuous identities of present attitudes an...

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HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY NORTHERN EUROPE

OLE PETER GRELL / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and economic changes brought about by industrialisati...

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CENTRES OF MEDICAL EXCELLENCE?

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. The most ambitious students have been travelling long distances for their education since universities were first founded in the 13th century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of...

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THE ANATOMIST ANATOMIS'D

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. This means looking in a novel way not only at the practical aspects of anatomizing but also at questions of how one became an anatomist, where and how the discipline was pract...

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BEFORE SCIENCE

ROGER FRENCH / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

The opposition of science and religion is a recent phenomenon; in the middle ages, and indeed until the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost no conflict. In the Middle Ages the objective study of nature - the activity we now call science - was largely the province of religious men. This book looks at the origins of western science and the central role played by t...

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THE ANATOMICAL RENAISSANCE

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients. The Moderns' choice of topics and subjects, their aims, and their evaluation of thei...

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MEDICINE AND THE REFORMATION

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

The tremendous changes in the role and significance of religion during Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation affected all of society. Yet, there have been few attempts to view medicine and the ideas underpinning it within the context of the period and see what changes it underwent. Medicine and the Reformation charts how both popular and official religion affected or...

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HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN PROTESTANT EUROPE 1500-1700

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities were going through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. This volume provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically impo...

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FURTHER DIMENSIONS OF HEALING ADDICTIONS

ANDREW RAMER / DONNA CUNNINGHAM

This is one of the few books available that focuses on understanding and treating addiction from a holistic and spiritual perspective. Numerous vibrational therapies are suggested, a deeper appreciation of the subtle energy bodies and chakras is offered, and there is a study of the karma of addiction and relevant past life patterns. Specific addictions include coffee, tobacco, ...

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THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF HEALING ADDICTIONS

ANDREW RAMER / DONNA CUNNINGHAM

Alcohol, tobacco, sugar, pot, and hard drugs are power tools the addict uses unsuccessfully to reach for a life task or vision. This channeled book shows how to reach those same places in consciousness harmlessly and to heal the emotional and spiritual aftereffects of addiction through meditation, flower essences, and crystals. ...

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A SAILOR'S ODYSSEY

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

Admiral Andrew Cunningham, best remembered for his courageous leadership in the Mediterranean in the Second World War, is often rated as our finest naval commander after Nelson, and indeed a bust of the Admiral was unveiled in Trafalgar Square close by his predecessor in 1967 by the Duke of Edinburgh. It was during the dark days of 1940–41, after the surrender of France and Ita...

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