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  • Museum Guide Berlin 2015

    by Claudia Stein ...
    Did you know that the athletes' village of the 1936 Olympic Games can still be visited? Or that an abandoned bunker hosts today one of the most fascinating private art collections? There are more than 170 exciting museums, venues, memorials and places with "museum philosophy". Sorted by district, each place is listed with contact information, opening hours, entrance fee and a brief description ... Read more

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    by Claudia Stein ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    This book explores the identity of the 'French disease' (alias the 'French pox' or 'Morbus Gallicus') in the German Imperial city of Augsburg between 1495 and 1630. Rejecting the imposition of modern conceptions of disease upon the past, it reveals how early modern medical theory facilitated enormous flexibility in defining disease, and how disease identification was a local matter, and one of ... Read more

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  • Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

    A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual and methodological shifts in historiography. In particular, he examines the “double bind” of postmodernism and biological or neurological modeling that ... Read more

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  • A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance

    Edited by Claudia Stein, Elaine Leong ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their head as concepts and categories for research have been re-thought. At the core of this change – for the period now familiarly referred to (not insignificantly) as 'early modern' – stands an epistemological reconsideration of the production of natural ... Read more

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  • Psychological Methods Of Child Assessment

    This book provides some common background in child development and assists the provider of child assessment services to determine appropriate procedures to answer questions and investigate specific problems. It is intended for graduate students in child clinical psychology and school psychology. ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
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  • The houses of history

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    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

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    The most prominent feature of Borderline Personality Disorder is the depth and variability of moods. This emotional instability can also be called emotional lability or reactivity. Individuals with Borderline disorder struggle with despondency, anger, rage, self-hatred, arrogance, anxiety, uncertainty, emptiness, dependency, stubbornness and impulses of self-damage. ... Read more

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  • Oedipus and the Devil

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  • The Death of Nature

    Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution

    UPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACEAn examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women. ... Read more

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edited by David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Read more

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