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

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen 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...

Le legs de Claude Bernard

The French noun Legs can be translated either as "legacy" or as "bequest". The title of the present volume implies both meanings. The book is, in one sense, an interpretation of the legacy left to posterity by the experimental discoveries and the thoughts of the famous nineteenth-century French physiologist, Claude Bernard. But the word refers also to the bequest that Bernard left to future sch...

Bioarchaeology: Scientific Studies of Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains

Bioarchaeology is an interdisciplinary academic specialty, which through the scientific analysis and interpretation of archaeological human skeletal remains, bridges the link between the biological sciences, medicine, anthropology and social sciences. The cornerstone of bioarchaeology is the interaction between culture and human biology. Since the study of people and ancient societies is one of...

Grand rounds: one hundred years of internal medicine

Grmek is admirably receptive to the socio-cultural shaping of responses to epidemic disease. Pointing out the irony of the fact that Susan Sontag's Illness as metaphor (1979) appeared on the very brink of the emergence of AIDS, he draws upon her perception that every age gets the symbolic disease it deserves to explore the metaphorical freighting of AIDS. Clearly aware that the ban upon figurat...