from Norbert Elias's concept of the "civilizing process", Spode argues that the perception of drunkenness as a social problem came with the growing interdependences in modem western society and the demand for controlled, rational behaviour, especially after the industrial revolution. Accordingly, his book focuses on the two German temperance movements of the nineteenth century. The first one, d...

This entry presents an overview on how mechanics in Greece was linked to geometry. In ancient Greece, about lifting heavy bodies, and mathematics almost coincided with Mathematics interconnected at least from the 5th century BCE became dominant Hellenistic period. The contributions by thinkers such as Aristotle, Euclid, Archytas fundamental problems that of lever are sketched. can be starting p...

Scholars often speak of ancient Greek masculinity and manhood as if there were a single, monolithic, simple conception. I will show that the ancient Greeks, like us today, had competing models or constructions of gender and that what it meant to be a man was different in different contexts. I will focus on three constructions of the masculine gender in ancient (classical and post-classical) Gre...

Ancient Greek literature gives us many relevant traces of the way people represented maritime spaces. Greek narratives endow these spaces with meaning and make them legible. Indeed, these testimonies are a significant contribution to our knowledge of the “odological” space at sea, a space of description including numerous cultural features rather than a space described. This space is based on e...

thinking also led to the development of symbolic logic, geometry and various branches of mathematics in ancient Greece, India, Islam and other civilizations. These advances provided a set of rules for the manipulation of concepts, ideas and other

Since the words evidence-based are so pervasively used in our present day practices of medicine in general, and spine specifically, we thought it might be of interest to explore the roots of this movement in greater detail. It is probably always a good idea to look for the origins of medical developments in ancient writings on scientific methods from around the world, particularly Greece and an...