Medical Mythology: Hera (Juno)

Correlation between the Eponyms of Medical Sciences and Mythology

The medical terms currently used are derived from a variety of sources. These terms are often derived from an eponym. Eponyms are a long-standing tradition in medicine. Eponyms usually involve honoring a prominent physician-scientist who played a significant role in identifying the disease or the person who first reported the disease or the area where a disease first broke out in there. Eponyms...

Izumo meets Juno

Sexual reproduction ensures the continued propagation of almost all eukaryotic species. Two morphologically very different types of cell, which develop exclusively in either the male or female, perform the role of creating a new and genetically distinct organism. In mammals, these 2 haploid cells, the sperm and the egg, meet in the female reproductive tract, interact, and finally fuse to become...

Context and Mythology

In this thesis, I will survey some philosophically representative approaches to the problem of the relationship between context and meaning. Starting from G.W.F. Hegel’s discussion of the meaninglessness of indexical terms in the Phenomenology of Spirit, I will investigate Gottlob Frege’s notion of context and the legacy of this notion in the formal sciences of language, showing that this appro...

Greek technology or mythology?

The study by Stefanadis et al. in this issue indicates that treatment with a variety of statins reduces the release of heat from atherosclerotic plaques in the human coronary artery. This observation suggests that statins exert a beneficial effect on the inflammatory process that exists in the vascular wall in a variety of acute coronary syndromes. The finding that this effect was most pronounc...

The Philosophy of Mythology