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Aug 25, 2011 · In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources.
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The first of these, entitled ‘periods’, traces the development of medical ideas and practice chronologically over time. The reader’s attention is drawn to the surprising diversity of ancient medicine, medical practice at the medieval bedside, the emergence of colonial medicine as western societies expanded geographically, and the rise of
Max Kommerell's groundbreaking book on Jean Paul (1933), recognizing the originality of these thinkers, conceptualized Gebärde “gesture”as a means of expressing the ego through the body without recourse to language (Ichgefühl). Laughter is one of the most complex manifestations of Ichgefühl.
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Mar 17, 2022 · Laughter As Politics offers a novel account of laughter’s role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete.
The first section of the book, comprised of 17 chapters, aims to cover the core concepts, and debates studied in the philosophy of medicine. It provides excellent overviews of the concepts of health (chapter 3
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European scholastic medicine, the primary form of medieval medicine, was distinct from that of antiquity, despite its thorough-going Galenism. This article looks more closely at the scholarship that has made this re-evaluation possible.
