China's Scientific Tradition

The French Paracelsians: the chemical challenge to medical and scientific tradition in early modern France

service of radical political aims. Advances in wealth and a consumerist attitude to life had created pathological lifestyles and addicted people to false medicine. Entrepreneurialism had rendered doctors complicit, finding their own gain in society's sickness. Only a few disenchanted radicals, like Beddoes, were prepared to step back and offer a scientific diagnosis, and they were not only marg...

The art is long: on the sacred disease and the scientific tradition.

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will conc...

Break with tradition: donating cadavers for scientific purposes and reducing the use of sentient beings.

In recent years, the development of research and the increased awareness of our moral duties beyond the human species have pushed the scientific community to revise widely-accepted ontological reductionist views that regard non-human animals as mere things. The new horizons offered by the development of advanced research methods therefore require an on-going commitment to new perspectives able ...

Beyond Tradition

Scientific truth and occult tradition: the medical world of Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1799).

HISTORIANS of science and medicine have frequently pictured the eighteenth century exclusively in terms of the triumph of Newtonian physics and the mechanical world view. According to this interpretation, the role of the creator was to be severely diminished in the world about us, and, in contrast to the vitalistic philosophies of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, religion was to b...