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Planned, funded, and overseen largely by the European Union, this "democratic experiment," one of many reforms adopted by Greece since its accession to the EU in the early 1980s, has led Greek citizens to question the state and its administration of human rights, social welfare, and education. Exploring the therapeutic dynamics of diagnosis, persuasion, healing, and failure in Greek psychiatry, Davis traces the terrains of truth, culture, and freedom that emerge from this questioning of the state at the borders of Europe. ![]() Free Download Pratik Chakrabarti, "Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (Rochester Studies in Medical History) " English | ISBN: 1580464084 | 2012 | 316 pages | PDF | 15 MB During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for Euopeans the great enemy of civilization. In the late nineteenth century when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were introduced to British India, they were therefore as much an imperial mission to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a medical one to eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in colonial India, a way by which the multifarious political, social, environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution. Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward tropical climate and wildlife, contributing to a wide field of scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester. ![]() Free Download Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates by Norma Faris Hubele English | 2022 | ISBN: 0367472309 | 200 pages | True PDF | 19.05 MB ![]() Free Download Miguel Ángel Sánchez Rodríguez, "Bachelard: La voluntad de imaginar o el oficio de ensoñar" Español | 2009 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 958665138X | PDF | 1,3 mb El presente libro explica la manera como el estudio filosófico del "ensueño poético" o "ensueño meditativo" llevado a cabo por Bachelard, maduró y le permitió desarrollar una fenomenología de la imaginación creadora que da cuenta de los múltiples lazos de filiación entre lo real y lo imaginario, del encuentro con el ámbito onírico donde el hombre es llevado a habitar, a morar lentamente entre la cosa y su nombre. El pensamiento de Bachelard representa una antropología de lo imaginario donde la voluntad de imaginar y el oficio de ensoñar constituyen los dos aspectos, fenomenológico y metafísico, de una misma fuerza hominizadora que transmuta las cosas para ser acogidas. Coedición con la Universidad de La Sabana - Bogotá, Colombia. ![]() Free Download Bach in Berlin : nation and culture in Mendelssohn's revival of the St. Matthew Passion By Bach, Johann Sebastian; Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix; Applegate, Celia 2005 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 080144389X | PDF | 2 MB Bach's St. Matthew Passion is universally acknowledged to be one of the world's supreme musical masterpieces, yet in the years after Bach's death it was forgotten by all but a small number of his pupils and admirers. The public rediscovered it in 1829, when Felix Mendelssohn conducted the work before a glittering audience of Berlin artists and intellectuals, Prussian royals, and civic notables. The concert soon became the stuff of legend, sparking a revival of interest in and performance of Bach that has continued to this day. Mendelssohn's performance gave rise to the notion that recovering and performing Bach's music was somehow "national work." In 1865 Wagner would claim that Bach embodied "the history of the German spirit's inmost life." That the man most responsible for the revival of a masterwork of German Protestant culture was himself a converted Jew struck contemporaries as less remarkable than it does us today-a statement that embraces both the great achievements and the disasters of 150 years of German history. In this book, Celia Applegate asks why this particular performance crystallized the hitherto inchoate notion that music was central to Germans' collective identity. She begins with a wonderfully readable reconstruction of the performance itself and then moves back in time to pull apart the various cultural strands that would come together that afternoon in the Singakademie. The author investigates the role played by intellectuals, journalists, and amateur musicians (she is one herself) in developing the notion that Germans were "the people of music." Applegate assesses the impact on music's cultural place of the renewal of German Protestantism, historicism, the mania for collecting and restoring, and romanticism. 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