Julius Ludwig August Koch (1841—1908): Christian, philosopher and psychiatrist

John Leonard Young, MD, MTh, CSC: Philosopher, Priest, and Forensic Psychiatrist.

It is a habit I have, and I cannot even recall exactly when it started. But I realized it recently when I walked into a Romanian Orthodox Church in Bucharest. I immediately thought of John Young and rapidly formulated a number of matters I would have liked to discuss with him right then about what I was observing. Both men and women who entered the Church in the middle of the afternoon approach...

Johann Christian August Heinroth: psychosomatic medicine eighty years before Freud.

Most often it is assumed that the 'psychosomatic' concept originated from psychoanalysis. However, this term had already been introduced into medical literature about 80 years before Sigmund Freud - namely by Johann Christian August Heinroth, the first professor of psychiatry and psychotherapy in the western world. Widely through quotations from his works, the authors analyze Heinroth's underst...

Lisa a . Gennetian , Jens LudwiG , thomas mcdade , and Lisa sanbonmatsu Concentrated Poverty Matters Why In 1987 sociologist William Julius

Julius Preuss.

THE OLDEST known Hebrew medical writing is that of Asaph which dates from the seventh century.' Since the ancient Hebrews left us no specific medical texts, our only sources of knowledge on this subject are the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures.2 It is from these that the fragments of our knowledge of their medical views and practices ...

Computability of Koch Curve and Koch Island

Koch curve is known as a typical self-similar set on Euclidean plane. Koch island is a closed set surrounded by three copies of Koch curve. We investigate them from the viewpoint of computability. In this paper, we define computability of a curve and that of a closed set as an application of classical computable analisys to Euclidean spaces and show that Koch curve is a computable curve and bot...