Rezension von: Planstädte der Neuzeit

Rezension von Guillaume Schiltz: Der Dialektometrische Atlas von Südwest-Baden

Der Dialektometrische Atlas von Südwest-Baden (DASB). Konzepte eines dialektometrischen Informationssystems.

Biologie, Wissenschaft von der belebten Materie von der Antike zur Neuzeit

Minor? Does not the extraordinarily vivid picture of the dog with rabies attacking a man deserve some comment and perhaps an inference as to its place of origin? These and other queries spring to mind as one turns over the pages. It would, however , be wholly unreasonable to concentrate on such insignificant details, when so much industry and expertise have gone into the making of this book. Th...

Rezension von Dalitz/Heyer: HYPER-G. Das Informationssystem der 2. Generation

Homo Hygienicus: Gesundheit und Medizin in der Neuzeit

symbolic architecture of the children's hospital. In many ways the most ambitious of the essays in this volume (the author is forced, not least, to get to grips with the very notion of the "history of childhood") it reads as a preliminary study, a promise of further investigations to come. By contrast, Alfons Labisch offers in the concluding historical essay, 'The social construction of health'...

Medizinische Fachprosa des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit

one hand, Wolff and Blumenbach attached vitalism to epigenesis. On the other hand, the Montpellier tradition developed the notion of the organism as a network of quasi-organisms in which living forces reside. The latter approach culminated in the work of Bichat, who, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, located vital properties in distinct tissues which he treated as bodily elements. Thi...