Ne ponajmanje primjetna jest činjenica da je starogrčka složenica eutanazija, koju oblikovao Francis Bacon, zadržala izvorni terminološki oblik još od trenutka njezina stvaranja u 17. stoljeću. No uz sva ostala sporna (bio)etička pitanja, već i samo pojmovno poimanje eutanazije kategorički pobuđuje prilično nezanemarive kontroverze. Pitanja koja se tom pogledu postavljaju jesu postoji li defini...

This study aimed to critically review methods for ranking risks related to food safety and dietary hazards on the basis of their anticipated human health impacts. A literature review was performed to identify and characterize methods for risk ranking from the fields of food, environmental science and socio-economic sciences. The review used a predefined search protocol, and covered the bibliogr...

This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world. Chinese herbal drugs have been described by medieval Muslim medical scholars such as Tabari (...

Zusammenfassung Religion und Bildung stehen in einem Spannungsverhältnis zueinander, das fruchtbar, aber auch konflikthaft ausgestaltet sein kann. Das galt bereits für frühe Christentum. Dem Befehl Jesu folgend es, Menschen vor nach der Taufe zuteil werden zu lassen. Aber kann man Glauben „machen“? Und wenn ja, wie? Der Beitrag beleuchtet zunächst die Kritik paganer Philosophen am „bildungslose...

La sangre de los mártires, como decía Michel Certeau (1995), es la metáfora gracia. A mediados del siglo XVII, martirologios individuales o compilados, que se consumían para edificar a fieles, representaban culminación conciencia martirial católica romana iniciada en las últimas décadas XVI y popularizada imágenes sufrimiento piedad transmitían sus protagonistas. En este artículo analizo alguno...