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"By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death--as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats--at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed. This new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness"-- Provided by publisher.
"Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Herve Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human"-- Provided by publisher.

Forms of living

Cytomegalovirus : a hospitalization diary / Hervé Guibert ; introduction by David Caron ; afterword by Todd Meyers ; translated by Clara Orban.

Knowledge of life / Georges Canguilhem ; edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers ; translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg.

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks to understand bodily shock, brain injury, and the wildly divergence between patients. Geroulanos and Meyers carefully trace how this emerging constellation of concepts became essential for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and collapse far beyond medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics. Moving effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing look into the conceptual underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in.

xii, 419 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

The human body in the age of catastrophe : brittleness, integration, science, and the Great War / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers.

In vivo (Seattle, Wash.)

In vivo: the cultural mediations of biomedical science

The clinic and elsewhere : addiction, adolescents, and the afterlife of therapy / Todd Meyers.

"Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE, examines and deconstructs these three aspects of ancient medicine in the Mediterranean world. It shows that, while physicians sought to assert themselves as experts in the medical art, they had to contend with numerous other healers whose methods, remedies and tools patients often favoured. It explores the ways in which civic entities, cities, kingdoms and empires, and their officials directly and indirectly shaped medical encounters and discoveries. It examines the interaction between medicine and the environment, non-human animals and plants. To attempt a cultural history of medicine in antiquity requires bringing together a wealth of sources: the texts attributed to Hippocrates, Galen and other medical authors are not neglected, but they are studied alongside other literary and historical works, letters on papyri, funerary inscriptions celebrating healers, surgical tools and bioarchaeological remains. While discussing the enduring cultural impact of classical Greek and Roman medicine in the West, through texts such as the Hippocratic Oath or names of diseases and types of medicines, this volume reveals the various ways in which health, disease and medical treatments were experienced diversely in the ancient world, according to gender, socio-economic class and ethnicity"-- Provided by publisher.

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A cultural history of medicine / general editor, Roger Cooter.

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Meyers, Todd

Catalogue

Cytomegalovirus : a hospitalization diary / Hervé Guibert ; introduction by David Caron ; afterword by Todd Meyers ; translated by Clara Orban.

Knowledge of life / Georges Canguilhem ; edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers ; translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg.

The human body in the age of catastrophe : brittleness, integration, science, and the Great War / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers.

The clinic and elsewhere : addiction, adolescents, and the afterlife of therapy / Todd Meyers.

A cultural history of medicine / general editor, Roger Cooter.

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Meyers, Todd

Catalogue

Cytomegalovirus : a hospitalization diary / Hervé Guibert ; introduction by David Caron ; afterword by Todd Meyers ; translated by Clara Orban.

Knowledge of life / Georges Canguilhem ; edited by Paola Marrati and Todd Meyers ; translated by Stefanos Geroulanos and Daniela Ginsburg.

The human body in the age of catastrophe : brittleness, integration, science, and the Great War / Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers.

The clinic and elsewhere : addiction, adolescents, and the afterlife of therapy / Todd Meyers.

A cultural history of medicine / general editor, Roger Cooter.

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