El propósito básico de este trabajo, es proporcionar al lector el conocimiento de la geometría descriptiva mediante un lenguaje ameno y comprensible, valiéndose en explicaciones en 2 y 3 dimensiones describiendo métodos y resolviendo ejemplos de aplicación propias de esta disciplina, con explicaciones detalladas, desarrollada en gran parte en el sistema de proyección ASA además, se aportan algunos ejemplos y explicaciones en el sistema de proyección DIN. Al final de cada capítulo, se plantean ejercicios o problemas correspondientes al tema para que el lector los pueda resolver.
- Cover
- Asylum Doctor
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER 1 Jimmie
- A Chester Boyhood
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Harvard College—and the Race of His Life
- Harvard Medical School
- McLean Asylum
- Coming Home against Better Judgment
- CHAPTER 2 Superintendent
- Psychiatry in the Late Nineteenth Century
- The South Carolina Lunatic Asylum
- Taking Charge—More or Less
- Kate Guion
- Benjamin Ryan Tillman and the Sea Islands Hurricane
- Tuberculosis in Asylums
- “The Colored Insane”
- Race and Gender
- Dumping Ground
- Restless Man
- Alienist
- Citizen
- CHAPTER 3 Founder of the Movement
- What We Know Now
- What They Knew Then
- First Cases
- Travels with Tillman
- The First Pellagra Conference—Columbia, South Carolina, 1908
- The First Statistics and the First Laboratory, 1909
- The First National Conference on Pellagra, 1909
- CHAPTER 4 How Bad It Was
- The Allegations
- Niels Christensen, Jr.
- Eight Days of Testimony
- The Majority Report
- The Minority Report
- Showdown
- Aftermath
- CHAPTER 5 Sambon’s Obsession
- Marie’s Pellagra
- An American Competence in Pellagra
- Historian of the Movement
- Epidemiologist, Clinician, and Teacher
- Lavinder and Siler Stake Out Positions
- Joseph Siler and the Two Commissions
- Claude Lavinder and the U.S. Public Health Service
- CHAPTER 6 So Near, So Far
- Casimir Funk and the “Vitamine” Hypothesis
- The 1912 Triennial Conference—Sandwith Comes Close
- Did Babcock and Carl Alsberg Almost Get It Right?
- Sambon’s Spash in Spartanburg
- Paradigms, Personalities, and the Tragedy of Casimir Funk
- CHAPTER 7 A Plain Farmer’s Daughter
- State Park
- Nora Saunders and Cole Blease
- Dr. Saunders, Dr. Cooper, and the Wassermann Test
- “Like Burnished Steel”
- The Higher Tribunal
- Vindication
- Resignation
- CHAPTER 8 The Blind Men of Hindustan
- A New Start
- Joseph Goldberger goes South
- The 1915 Triennial Conference—“The Diet of the Well-to-Do”
- Sambon’s Sad Legacy
- “The Dreams of our Youth”
- Postscripts
- Perspective: Asylum Doctor
- Babcock as Administrator
- Babcock as Leader in Response to the Pellagra Epidemic
- Babcock as Exemplar of Character Traits Worthy of Emulation
- Asylum Doctor
- APPENDIX 1 Mortality and Full Recoveries (as Percentages of Patients Treated) by Race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891–1914
- APPENDIX 2 Parallels in the Histories of Beriberi and Pellagra
- APPENDIX 3 A Chronology of Pellagra and Niacin
- APPENDIX 4 Summary of the Four Major Pellagra Conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908–1915
- Notes for Researchers
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index