Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. foreword ix
4. editor and translator’s note xiii
5. introduction 1
6. part one. Pathocenosis: Diseases in History
7. one. Preliminaries for a Historical Study of Diseases 31
8. two. The Concept of Emerging Disease 41
9. three. Some Unorthodox Views and a Selection Hypothesis on the Origin of the AIDS Viruses 55
10. part two. Experiments and Concepts in Life Sciences
11. four. First Steps in Claude Bernard’s Discovery of the Glycogenic Function of the Liver 75
12. five. The Causes and the Nature of Ageing 86
13. six. A Survey of the Mechanical Interpretations of Life from the Greek Atomists to the Followers of Descartes 104
14. part three. History of Science: The Laboratory of Epistemology
15. seven. A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientifi c Discoveries from Myth 123
16. Part four. Memoricide: War and the Eradication of Cultural Memory
17. eight. A Memoricide 157
18. nine. Dubrovnik: The Slavic Athens 159
19. acknowledgments 167
20. notes 171
21. bibliography 217
22. index 247