Medizin und Seeverkehr (Schluss aus No. 48.)

Technik und Medizin

social setting and medical politics of late eighteenth-century Manchester and its Infirmary. With the late publication of his text, argues Pickstone, Percival tried to defend a, by then threatened, civico-medical virtue ethic, in the tradition of Bishop Joseph Butler. Robert Baker finally complements this with a detailed analysis of Percival's code as such. Arguing in particular against Ivan Wa...

Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. Band V: Keilschrifttexte aus Ninive 1

the Istamatis, but wrong in suggesting that the borrowing took place at a "pre-Arabic" stage (p. 69). The first of the parallels she points out (ibid.) is so close in the actual wording of the Arabic texts as to make it far more probable that it was the Arabic version of the Istamaits which was used in compiling the Arabic version of the Sirr. A similar query, but one of greater consequence, ar...

Aus dem CharitéCentrum für Innere Medizin mit Gastroenterologie und Nephrologie (CC13) Medizinische Klinik mit dem Schwerpunkt Endokrinologie und Stoffwechselmedizin

Ärzte und Medizin in Afrika

common people', in other words almost anything commonly accepted and practised. This is fair enough, but before medicine became scientific how, in this day and age, can we separate folklore from orthodox practice? The beliefs and customs of the past are so numerous that it is impossible to make a complete collection, and any attempt to do so must result in an unreadable jumble. The study of fol...

Joseph Beuys und die Medizin

(individualizing) and the modern (ontological) concepts of disease, the part played by Harvey concerning tissue irritability, and the fundamental new ideas and leanings towards mysticism and magia naturalis in Helmont. We have also noted the absence of Paracelsus and the Victorines under lumen naturale (cols. 547-552), of Picatrix and the "prohibited arts", the spectacular controversy on magnet...