Mirko Dražen Grmek (1924–2000)

Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

Professor Mirko D Grmek, historian of science and medicine, died in Paris on 6 March 2000 aged seventy-six, at the end of a long and trying disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. "Crossing the borders" can be taken as the motto of his life and work. Without ever losing his cultural and personal roots, he was ready to widen and expand his interests and subjects of work. Of Croatian origin, he b...

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

Mirko Drazen Grmek: the genesis of scientific fact and archaeology of disease.

Professor Mirko Drazen Grmek (Krapina 1924--Paris 2000) was one of the most prominent Croatian scientists. Work in history of science directed him to the crossroads of various fields placing his approach in anthropological perspective. Two models will serve as illustrations of his main theories. The historical reconstruction of scientific discovery (mostly on examples of 17th century) will be p...

Maladie et maladies: histoire et conceptualisation. Mélanges en l'honneur de Mirko Grmek

In addition there are three papers which are directly concerned with the history of medicine in the period. Jole Shackelford gives a succinct but superb account of the fortunes of Paracelsianism in Denmark as a result of the work of Petrus Severinus, Johannes Pratensis and Tycho Brahe and their support by Frederick II. Harold J. Cook's paper succeeds in showing the ways in which "changes in the...

Milestones in the history of Croatian dermatology and venereology: an outsider's insight.

While the first traces of interest in skin diseases date back to the 14(th) century recipes from Glagolitic manuscripts, the scientific beginnings of dermatovenereology might be associated with the beginning of the 19(th) century, when in the Rijeka region a 'new disease', called after the village of Škrljevo, was studied by Giovanni Battista Cambieri. This, however, has not been the only disea...