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Risse, Guenter Bernhard was born on April 28, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of Francisco B. and Kaete A. Risse.
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New Medical Challenges explores a wide range of social and medical practices, exposing the contradictions and ambiguities found in eighteenth-century Scottish health, science and medicine. The overall picture casts further light on the nature of the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon. Commercial society created new jobs, wealth and desires, that threatened contemporary values and physical health. Both luxury and poverty took their toll, spawning disease among the affluent and the poor. A number of key issues are examined, including the role of charity, medical debates and competition, vivisection, and diseases of the time – such as ‘pulmonary consumption’, ‘mill reek’ and ‘ague’. Special chapters are devoted to ‘female troubles’, ‘hysteria’ and ‘hypochondriasis’, showing the evolving relationships across gender and class lines between poor patients and their physicians. To place medical ideas and practices into proper context, the essays offer extensive background information and rediscover the lost voices of prominent physicians involved in promoting health and battling illness. Thanks to the richness of seldom-tapped archival sources – book manuscripts, consultation letters, hospital registration and management records, together with student essays, lecture notes and notebooks – the selected episodes expose a world of uncertainty, confusion and paradox. New Medical Challenges tells a wide range of stories that will be of great interest to a broad readership concerned with past health issues. Contents Preface Introduction PART I Medical Institutions 1 For God and Country: Duties and Rewards of Charity at the Edinburgh Infirmary 2 Debates and Experiments: The Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh 3 The Royal Medical Society versus Campbell Donovan: Brunonianism, the Press, and the Medical Establishment PART II Health and Disease 4 In the Name of Hygieia and Hippocrates: A Quest for the Preservation of Health and Virtue 5 Ague in Eighteenth-Century Scotland? The Shifting Ecology of a Disease 6 ‘Mill Reek’ in Scotland: Construction and Management of Lead Poisoning PART III Medical Theory and Practice 7 Organising Knowledge and Making Clinical Decisions: Phthisis and Student-Selected Case Histories 8. Framing Gynaecology in Edinburgh: The Perplexing Nature of Women's Bodies 9 Mind-Body Enigma: Hysteria and Hypochondriasis at the Edinburgh Infirmary Eighteenth-Century Medical Scotland: A Select Bibliography Index
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By chronicling the transformations of hospitals from houses of mercy to tools of confinement, from dwellings of rehabilitation to spaces for clinical teaching and research, from rooms for birthing and dying to institutions of science and technology, this book provides a historical approach to understanding of today's hospitals. The story is told in a dozen episodes which illustrate hospitals in particular times and places, covering important themes and developments in the history of medicine and therapeutics, from ancient Greece to the era of AIDS. This book furnishes a unique insight into the world of meanings and emotions associated with hospital life and patienthood by including narratives by both patients and care givers. By conceiving of hospitals as houses of order capable of taming the chaos associated with suffering, illness, and death, we can better understand the significance of their ritualized routines and rules. From their beginnings, hospitals were places of spiritual and physical recovery. They should continue to respond to all human needs. As traditional testimonials to human empathy and benevolence, hospitals must endure as spaces of healing.
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Risse, Guenter Bernhard was born on April 28, 1932 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of Francisco B. and Kaete A. Risse.
Doctor of Medicine, University Buenos Aires, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1971.
Intern Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, 1958-1959. Resident in medicine Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, 1960-1961, Mount Carmel Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, 1962-1963. Assistant department medicine University Chicago, 1963-1967.
Assistant professor department history of medicine University Minnesota, 1969-1971. Associate professor department history of medicine and department history of science University Wisconsin, Madison, 1971-1976, professor, 1976-1985, chairman department history of medicine, 1971-1977. Professor department history health science University California, San Francisco, 1985-1999, professor department anthropology, history and social medicine, 1999-2001, professor emeritus, since 2001, department chair, 1985—1999.
Affiliate professor department bioethics and humanities University Washington School Medicine, Seattle, since 2002. With Argentine Armed Forces, 1955.
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Served with Argentine Armed Forces, 1955. Member American Association History of Medicine (president 1988-1990, William H. Welch medal 1988), History Science Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Medizin, European Association History of Medicine and Health, International Network for History of Public Health, Mexico Society History and Philosophy of Medicine, Peruvian Association Medical Ethnology and History, British Society for Social History of Medicine, Argentine Ateneo de Historia de la Medicina, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome History Group (co-chair 1988-1994), International Network for History of Hospitals (convenor since 1995), Bay Area Medical History Club (president 1994-1996).
Married Alexandra G. Paradzinski, October 14, 1961. Children– Heidi, Monica, Alisa.