Man, Trees and History

Climate, man and history

Man and medicine: a history

methodology, and indeed a part of their radiance comes from Davidson's reinterpretation of Foucault's works of his "middle period", best contained in Les mots et les choses and L'Arche'ologie du savoir. Davidson shows the similarity and difference between Canguilhem's and Foucault's projects better than any other Anglophone commentator, and he relates all these theoretical insights back to the ...

Natural History of Man

The Ethnological Society have, from the first, put forward as their motto, and the recommendation of their claim to support, this assertion of Cuvier: "In every region of the earth man has, almost universally, been regarded by us with indifference. It is difficult to account for such neglect, but it is no less a misfortune to be deplored.' Much has indeed been done towards the vindication of th...

Atherosclerosis in man: natural history and effects.

The term natural history is often used as an excuse for vague discursive accounts of biological matters; nothing could be less desirable in a subject like atherosclerosis where confusions of definition have for long hindered progress. I propose to try and present a concise and precise account of the natural history and effects of this disease in man and to indicate some of the main debatable po...

The true history of the elephant man

culture, colonialism and a hybrid political system, and lastly Marxism with a mixed culture and racial base. The author has drawn on a computer bank of references covering some eight thousand observations on famines over the past six thousand years. The extreme difficulties inherent in recording and analysing famines are recognized. Ten pages of various definitions of famine are given, a good w...