A range of discourse and racial proposals are analyzed confronted in the article that were pursued from within Medicine Psychiatry during early Francoism. In particular, Misael Bañuelo’s openly biologistic vision was influenced by theories put forward Nazism discussed. His confrontation with conception sustained followers Hispanidad (Spanishness) National Catholicism analyzed, especially Vallej...

own experience, and his substantial account, at the end of his commentary on Epidemics VI, of the relationship between mental states and illness does not mention self-inflicted death. His acquaintances worry themselves to death at the loss of a friend, a relative, or even imperial favour. Their shame or irrational fear leads to illness, not to self-murder. This gap can hardly be put down, as is...

Both contemporaries and historians have focused on the high-profile 1874 Belfast Address in which John Tyndall was widely perceived as promulgating atheism. Although some historians have instead interpreted him as a pantheist or an agnostic, it is clear that any such labels do not accurately capture Tyndall’s religious position throughout his life. By contrast, this paper seeks to chart Tyndall...

In this article, I address the issue of the sale of human organs and the moral implications of a market in human organs under the aegis of Christian Bioethics. I argue that moral issues of this kind cannot be adequately be addressed from the point of view of moral frameworks, which point exclusively to procedural norms. Rather, a moral perspective must embody some substantive norms derived from...

Tracing the origins of eugenics in Canada and seeking to apply a national model, the article explores the juxtaposition between the movement's origin in Britain and its popularity in the Canadian academic milieu, and its condemnation in Quebecois intellectual circles. The first aspect of the movement is explored through the work of two McGill professors, Carrie Derrick and J.G. Adami. In contra...