Substitution bessert körperliche Gesundheit

Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed

Whether they are modeling bookmarking behavior in Flickr or cascades of failure in large networks, models of diffusion often start with the assumption that a few nodes start long chain reactions, resulting in large-scale cascades. While reasonable under some conditions, this assumption may not hold for social media networks, where user engagement is high and information may enter a system from ...

Ärzte im Zukunftsmarkt Gesundheit 2006

Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte

ARTHUR E. IMHOF (editor), Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 39), Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1980, 8vo. pp. vii, 415, DM. 69.00 (paperback). This volume is the outcome of an international colloquium held in Berlin on 20-23 September 1978. A research project on the topic of 'Men and Health in History' by a group of soc...

Gesundheit! Patrick Holt smothers allergies and asthma

Despite a flood of research on the topic, rates of allergy and allergy-induced asthma continue to climb in most industrialized nations. Holt, a professor at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia, wants to reverse that trend. To accomplish this, he needs to know what triggers airborne allergy and asthma, starting at the moment babies draw their first breath. He's c...

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'...