Defensive Medizin – unnötige Medizin?

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...

Geschichte der Medizin

Medizin in Berlin

says of the reader, "I can expect him to provide his own framework". At the same time, Horace Davenport, Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Michigan, has an easy command of the material, and the reviews he presents of the publication of one or another faculty member are sometimes detailed and lucidly explained. Occasionally his accounts of medical life at Michigan, such as the fine description...

Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Ein Arbeitsbuch

W. WUTTKE-GRONEBERG, Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Ein Arbeitsbuch, Tiubingen, Schwabische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1980, 4to, pp. 440, illus., DM. 42.00. (paperback). As a collection of primary sources, this book is unique. While other authors have assembled related documents only on specialized themes (e.g. on the activities of concentration camp doctors), Wuttke-Groneberg offers a much broader...

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...