Ancient Greek Origins of Modern Biopolitics

On Greek, Ancient and Modern (but Rather Ancient than Modern)

In this paper a few applications of the current implementation of R are given. These applications concern typesetting problems that cannot be solved by TEX (consequently, by no other typesetting system known to the authors). They cover a wide range, going from calligraphic script fonts (Adobe Poetica), to plain Dutch/Portuguese/Turkish typesetting, to vowelized Arabic, fully diacriticized schol...

The ancient Greek origins of sports medicine.

The history of physical education shows sport and medicine to have a long-standing and close relationship (Dixon et al. 1957). Indeed, if one takes into account the participation of doctors of medicine on national teams and the sporting reputations of some hospitals and medical faculties, a sympathy for sport seems to be almost a tradition of the medical profession. Perhaps the association of h...

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Homeostasis. The ancient Greek origin of a modern scientific principle.

Many medical terms have a long history. They are first introduced as a concept and later acquire their proper name. In this article we trace the origin of the term homeostasis, which in modern medicine means the complex balance and the constancy of all aspects of body function and the coordinated regulation of its component fluids and cells. The various organs and systems have different roles i...

Ancient Origins of a Modern Anthropic Cosmological Argument

Ancient origins of a modern anthropic argument against cosmologies involving infinite series of past events are considered. It is shown that this argument – which in modern times has been put forward by distinguished cosmologists such as Paul C. W. Davies and Frank J. Tipler – originates in pre-Socratic times and is implicitly present in the cyclical cosmology of Empedocles. There are traces of...