Quaestio disputata: when does quality of life count? A response to Gilbert Meilaender.

Quaestio disputata. Ordinary and extraordinary treatments: when does quality of life count?

The sanctity of life seduced: a symposium on medical ethics.

Against abortion: a Protestant proposal.

Rewriting the history of madness: studies in Foucault's

examinations in Padua and elsewhere. The German universities followed slavishly their Italian models. Eberhard Knab, active in Heidelberg from 1451 to 1480, was not alone in leaving memorials of his teaching in the form of Quaestiones (see the Verfasserlexikon, s.n.), and the orations delivered by Melanchthon's pupils in the Wittenberg of the 1540s and 1550s, printed among his collected works, ...

Relation between the Short Term Health Related Quality of Life and Various Types of Medical Treatment in Patients with Idiopathic Chronic Thrombocytopenia

Background:Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by a low platelet count due to reduced production and higher destruction of the platelets. Therapy is aimed at increasing the patient’s platelet count to safe levels and includes a wide variety of treatments, which has a large impact on the patient’s quality of life. Health Related Quality of Li...