{"product_id":"chagas-disease-history-of-a-continents-scourge-hardcover","title":"Chagas Disease: History of a Continent's Scourge - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrançois Delaporte\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArthur Goldhammer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eTodd Meyers\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrançois Delaporte's \u003ci\u003eChagas Disease \u003c\/i\u003echronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and 1911, Carlos Chagas described an infection (pathogenic trypanosome), its intermediate host, and the illness that he believed it caused, parasitic thyroiditis. Chagas's work did not lack significance: the disease that came to share his name would be one of Latin America's most serious endemic diseases. However, the clinical identification of the disease through \"Romaña's sign\" (a palpebral edema or swelling of the eyelid) some decades later marked a transformation in the general medical knowledge of the disease and its basis altogether. Not only was the disease entity that Chagas had described shown to be a nosological illusion, but twenty-five years of scientific controversy turned out to have been based on a misunderstanding. The continued use of the term \"Chagas's Disease\" even after Cecilio Romaña's discovery thus refers to a fundamental ambiguity. Delaporte dispels this ambiguity by re-examining the various discoveries, dead ends, controversies, and major epistemological transformations that marked the history of the disease--a history that begins with the creation of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro and ends in the forests of Santa Fe in northern Argentina. Delaporte's study shows how an epistemological focus can add depth to the history of medicine and complexity to accounts of scientific discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFRANÇOIS DELAPORTE\u003c\/strong\u003e s Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Université Jules Verne de Picardie (France). Several of his books have been translated into English, including: \u003cem\u003eDisease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris, 1832\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe History of Yellow Fever\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e Anatomy of the Passions\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eNature's Second\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eKingdom\u003c\/em\u003e. He also edited \u003cem\u003eA Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings of Georges Canguilhem\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eARTHUR GOLDHAMMER \u003c\/strong\u003eis Senior Affiliate of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTODD MEYERS\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at Wayne State University.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 14, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52246845817106,"sku":"9780823242498","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/K6dYp0UufV9780823242498.webp?v=1778104375","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/chagas-disease-history-of-a-continents-scourge-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}