Gesundheit als Ware?

Normierung der Gesundheit. Messende Verfahren der Medizin als kulturelle Praktik um 1900

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, "norms" became prominent in sciences from physiology to psychiatry, anthropology to genetics, criminology to embryology, and in such rationalizing movements as Taylorism and eugenics. Norming health: medical measuring as a cultural practice around 1900, based on a workshop organized by Volker Hess in Berlin in September 1996, is a collective attempt to...

Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed

Whether they are modeling bookmarking behavior in Flickr or cascades of failure in large networks, models of diffusion often start with the assumption that a few nodes start long chain reactions, resulting in large-scale cascades. While reasonable under some conditions, this assumption may not hold for social media networks, where user engagement is high and information may enter a system from ...

Ärzte im Zukunftsmarkt Gesundheit 2006

James P. Ware, Principal

Database Component Ware

Database modeling is still a job of an artisan. Due to this approach database schemata evolve by growth without any evolution plan. Finally, they cannot be examined, surveyed, consistently extended or analyzed. Querying and maintenance become very difficult. Distribution of database fragments becomes a performance bottleneck. Currently, databases evolve to huge databases. Their development must...