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    Thomas Annan of Glasgow : pioneer of the documentary photograph (2015)
    Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
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    ISBN: 1783741295 , 1783741287 , 1783741279 , 1783741309 , 1783741317 , 9781783741274 , 9781783741281 , 9781783741274 , 9781783741304 , 9781783741281 , 9781783741311 , 9781783741298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 182 pages) , color illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gossman, Lionel Thomas Annan of Glasgow : pioneer of the documentary photograph
    Keywords: Annan, Thomas ; Photographers History ; Streets Pictorial works ; Photography History ; Documentary photography History ; Individual photographers ; Photography and photographs ; The arts ; PHOTOGRAPHY ; Subjects & Themes ; Landscapes ; Documentary photography ; Photographers ; Photography ; Streets ; Scotland ; Scotland ; Glasgow ; History ; Pictorial works ; Glasgow (Scotland) Pictorial works History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse -- the "Second City of the Empire"--A substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan's photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan's achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer's work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan's career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography -- a mechanical practice or an artistic one? -- and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further."--Publisher's website
    Abstract: Prefatory Note and Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Paintings -- 3. Portraits -- 4. Landscapes -- 5. The Built Environment -- 6. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow -- 7. Epilogue -- Endnotes -- List of Illustrations -- Index of Names.
    Note: Available through Open Book Publishers , Includes bibliographical references in endnotes (pages 127-162) and a name index
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    Animals and medicine : the contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease (2015)
    Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
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    ISBN: 1783741198 , 1783741201 , 178374121X , 178374118X , 1783741171 , 9781783741205 , 9781783741199 , 9781783741182 , 9781783741212 , 9781783741175 , 9781783741182 , 9781783741175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 224 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    Uniform Title: Research Defence Society News
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Botting, Jack H. Animals and medicine Contribution of animal experiments to the control of disease
    Keywords: Laboratory animals ; Medicine Research ; History ; Animal experimentation History ; Animal experimentation ; Laboratory animals ; Medicine ; Research ; Medicine ; History ; Medicine: general issues ; Public health and preventive medicine ; History of medicine ; MEDICAL ; Laboratory Medicine ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Animals and Medicine: The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the Control of Disease offers a detailed, scholarly historical review of the critical role animal experiments have played in advancing medical knowledge. Laboratory animals have been essential to this progress, and the knowledge gained has saved countless lives--both human and animal. Unfortunately, those opposed to using animals in research have often employed doctored evidence to suggest that the practice has impeded medical progress. This volume presents the articles Jack Botting wrote for the Research Defence Society News from 1991 to 1996, papers which provided scientists with the information needed to rebut such claims. Collected, they can now reach a wider readership interested in understanding the part of animal experiments in the history of medicine--from the discovery of key vaccines to the advancement of research on a range of diseases, among them hypertension, kidney failure and cancer."--Publisher's website
    Abstract: List of illustrations -- Foreword / Adrian R. Morrison -- Introduction / Regina Botting -- I. Treatment of infectious diseases -- 1. Smallpox and After: An Early History of the Treatment and Prevention of Infections -- 2. Rabies -- 3. Lockjaw: Prevalent but Preventable -- 4. Pertussis Vaccine, Unfairly Maligned -- At What Cost? -- 5. Vaccination: The Present and Future -- 6. The Conquest of Polio and the Contribution of Animal Experiments -- 7. Diphtheria: Understanding, Treatment and Prevention -- II. Development of Life-saving Procedures -- 8. Development of Dialysis to Treat Loss of Kidney Function -- 9. The Contribution of Animal Experiments to Kidney Transplantation -- 10. Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Making Surgery on the Heart Possibe -- 11. Artificial Heart Valves: From Caged Ball to Bioprosthesis -- 12. Animals and Blood Transfusion -- III. Drugs for Organic Diseases -- 13. Animal Experiments and the Production of Insulin -- 14. Animals and Humans: Remarkably Similar -- 15. Early Animal Experiments in Anaesthesia -- 16. The Control of Malignant Hypertension -- 17. Penicillin and Laboratory Animals: The Animal Rights Myth -- 18. The History of Thalidomide -- 19. Misleading Research or Misleading Statistics: Animal Experiments and Cancer Research -- Index.
    Note: Available through Open Book Publishers , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    The scientific revolution revisited (2015)
    Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
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    ISBN: 1783741244 , 1783741252 , 1783741260 , 9781783741229 , 9781783741250 , 9781783741243 , 9781783741267 , 9781783741236
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 146 pages) , color illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Teich, Mikulás. Scientific revolution revisited
    Keywords: Science History ; Technology History ; World history ; History of science ; History ; History: specific events and topics ; Humanities ; Mathematics and science ; Regional and national history ; Science: general issues ; Social and cultural history ; HISTORY ; Europe ; General ; Science ; Technology ; World history ; European history ; History ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science - and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher - The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world."--Publisher's website
    Abstract: List of illustrations -- Note on terminology and acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. From pre-classical to classical pursuits -- 2. Experimentation and quantification -- 3. Institutionalisation of science -- 4. Truth(s) -- 5. The scientific revolution: the big picture -- 6. West and East European contexts -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
    Note: Available through Open Book Publishers , Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-138) and index
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