Christoph Hammann, Katharsis in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike. Vorstellungen von Reinigung und Reinheit in Medizin, platonischer Philosophie und christlicher Theologie des 2. bis 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht) 2020 (Hypomnemata 208), 983 S., ISBN 978-3-525-31723-5 (geb.), € 100,–

Irmtraut Sahmland and, Hans-Jürgen Schrader (eds), Medizin- und kulturgeschichtliche Konnexe des Pietismus: Heilkunst und Ethik, arkane Traditionen, Musik, Literatur und Sprache (Göttingen and Bristol, CT: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), pp. 428, €90, hardback, €74.99, e-book, ISBN: 978-3-525-55844-7.

the potential equality and convertibility of all people. Stornig’s analysis of the exposition material reveals that religious and secular knowledge were deeply connected. Catholic academics established their theory on ‘cultural circles’ (Kulturkreise) by merging both types of knowledge. Much of their argumentation was based on pictures of bodies, used to construct differences. Marcel Dreier und...

Meister Eckharts Lehre vom Ursprung und Ziel des Menschen

Synthese und Strukturen von Monoalkylamiden und -imiden des Titans

A new method for the preparation o f monoalkylamides o f composition Cp'TiCl2N H R is reported. Me3SnNHR (R = /Bu la , CH/Pr-, lb ) reacts with Cp'TiCl3 with elimination o f M e3SnCl to yield Cp'TiCLNHR (2) (2a: Cp' = C5H 5, R = /Bu, 2b: Cp' = Me3SiC5H4, R = t Bu, 2c: Cp' = (M e3Si)?C5H3, R = /Bu, 2d: Cp' = Me4C5H, R = /Bu, 2e: Cp' = Me5C5, R = t Bu, 2f: Cp' = C5H 5, R = CH/Pr2, 2g: Cp' = M e3S...

Technik und Medizin

social setting and medical politics of late eighteenth-century Manchester and its Infirmary. With the late publication of his text, argues Pickstone, Percival tried to defend a, by then threatened, civico-medical virtue ethic, in the tradition of Bishop Joseph Butler. Robert Baker finally complements this with a detailed analysis of Percival's code as such. Arguing in particular against Ivan Wa...

Ärzte und Medizin in Afrika

common people', in other words almost anything commonly accepted and practised. This is fair enough, but before medicine became scientific how, in this day and age, can we separate folklore from orthodox practice? The beliefs and customs of the past are so numerous that it is impossible to make a complete collection, and any attempt to do so must result in an unreadable jumble. The study of fol...