Perspectives on cultural economy: personal, institutional, historical

Personal and Historical Perspectives

Frederick Akbar Mahomed was an Englishman of mixed Indian and Irish descent who made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure in a short professional life from 1872 to 1884. He was strongly influenced by the previous work of Richard Bright on kidney disease at his own hospital (Guy's Hospital in London) and by the contemporary pathological studies of Gull and Sutton on arte...

Influence Diagrams - Historical and Personal Perspectives

Personal and Historical Perspectives Franz Volhard in Historical Perspective

Franz Volhard was the dominant German clinician in the first half of this century. His work placed the classification of renal disease on a firm, pathologically oriented footing and gave the syndrome of uremia meaning in terms of not only renal dysfunction but also with respect to the participation of other organ systems. Furthermore, Volhard elucidated the pathogenesis of hypertension and stim...

Historical Perspectives on Exotic

In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, California agriculture underwent a fundamental transformation as the state’s farmers shifted from the production of wheat to a rich variety of tree, vine, and row crops. This transformation required a wholesale shift in the production processes, with new farming practices, new labor systems, and new marketing structures. But success also req...

Gendered Drugs and Medicine. Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives.