Harnessing science for Hitler

Working Pasteur's Quadrant: harnessing science and action for community change.

Community psychology in general and the field of prevention in particular has unquestioningly accepted the assumption that the research process should proceed in a linear fashion from a search for basic knowledge to application in the community context. This ignores the compelling insight offered by Stokes (1997) that the drive for new knowledge and the pursuit of application can be combined in...

Harnessing new science is vital for biodefense and global health.

W ith the impending Congressional approval of Project Bioshield (S. 15 and H.R. 2122), the United States will be taking new steps to prepare itself against the prospect of bioterrorism. The bills provide incentives to the private, for-profit sector to develop diagnostics, vaccines, and drugs against biological threats. In addition, through a program launched in fiscal year 2003, the National In...

Harnessing the Science of Persuasion for Expert Witness Testimony

Adolf Hitler had post-encephalitic Parkinsonism.

Adolf Hitler had Parkinson symptoms in 1934, at age 45 years. He may have had transient symptoms in 1923, at age 34 years. Young-onset parkinsonism, during the 1920s, favored a diagnosis of post-encephalitic rather than idiopathic parkinsonism. Hitler had oculogyric crises, phenomena only associated with post-encephalitic parkinsonism. In addition, he had dystonic facial spasms, palilalia and a...

Reenchanted science: holism in German culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler

Galenism as the dominant medical philosophy in the later middle ages and early modem period. It is a history in turn that assumes that this was always an age of patient-led medicine. This was certainly the case in large parts of Europe in the eighteenth century (and not just in England), for medical corporations in many countries after 1700 lost their traditional power to police medical practic...