Joseph Neef: A Pestalozzian Pioneer

Joseph Skoda 1805-81: a centenary tribute to a pioneer of thoracic medicine.

Joseph Skoda was born on 5 December 1805 in Pilsen, Bohemia, and studied medicine in Vienna, where he became professor of medicine in 1846. His clinical researches into cardiopulmonary disease at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus were complementary to the pathological anatomical studies carried out there by Karl von Rokitansky. Skoda had been stimulated by the pioneer work on percussin and auscultatio...

Joseph Hippolyte Cloquet (1787–1840)— Physiology of smell: Portrait of a pioneer

While the physiology, histology and stem cell biology of smell are active fields of contemporary research, smell is probably the sense that physicians knew the least about prior to the 20th century. Joseph-Hippolyte Cloquet (1787–1840) was an anatomist who, in 1815, defended a singular doctoral thesis—On odours, the sense of olfaction and the olfactory organs—then went on to publish, in 1821, t...

Manfred Max-Neef on Fundamental Human Needs

Latin America: crisis and perplexity In creating the future, there is either the risk of making errors of perception, or of making errors of action. Concerning perception, two serious mistakes are often made. The first is to believe diat the Latin American crisis can be ascribed principally to an external crisis. The second, stemming from the first, is to assume that our depression is just a pa...

Joseph

as good as his little sister Maria. He does nothing but play marbles. I can't even send him to the store because he never brings home what I tell him to." The general tenor of this dissertation was repeated every time I saw her in the future. I devoted my first lesson to letting Joseph read the story of The Little Red Hen, pp. 1-9, Winston Primer. He read with great difficulty, spelling the wor...

Parnham—A Pioneer Venture