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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoAlthough he obtained a medical degree at the University of Caen in 1618, Isaac Beeckman never practised medicine. Instead, he developed an atomistic conception of Galenic physiology by discussing, throughout his notebook, the constituents and functioning of the living body. Interestingly, Beeckman applied his atomistic interpretation to the notion…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Red Cross humanitarianism and female volunteers in Australia in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoHistorically the Red Cross has created opportunities for women that were otherwise denied to them in their wider society. This role for female Red Cross workers is not a recent thing and is deeply embedded in the past and psyche of the organisation.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong started the topic Two open access medical humanities articles available for download in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear all
The two open access articles I published in 2021 may be of interest to the group:
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4724/
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Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s ‘Degeneration’ and Émile Zola’s ‘La Débâcle’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s ‘Degeneration’ and Émile Zola’s ‘La Débâcle’ in the group
Masculinities in Literature on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego started the topic Deadline Extended for the Conjuring a New Normal Special Collection [15/01/2023] in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK). With support from the journal editorial…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemien im vormodernen Südasien? Kollektives Leid durch Umwelteinflüsse und Adharma in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIm Ayurveda bedarf die Entstehung von Epidemien einer gesonderten Erklärung, da sie nicht mit dem dort gültigen allgemeinen Verständnis der Krankheitsentstehung in Einklang zu bringen ist. Das Grundkonzept sieht vor, dass Menschen je nach Konstitution, Ernährung, Körperkraft, Gewöhnung,
Charakter und Alter für bestimmte Krankheiten anfäll…[Read more] -
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited En la selva de las formas: Ideas y formas en los gabinetes de curiosidades de Thomas Browne (Claire Preston) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoSpanish abstract: Reseño aquí el capítulo “In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne’s Cabinets of Curiosity”, de Claire Preston, publicado en el libro de estudios mediáticos retrofuturistas ‘The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print’ (ed. Neil Rhodes y Jonathan Sawday, 2000). Los sabios y est…[Read more]
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Mark R. Stoneman deposited Bürgerliche und adlige Krieger: Zum Verhältnis zwischen sozialer Herkunft und Berufskultur im wilhelminischen Offizierkorps in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis essay offers a revisionist interpretation of the Imperial German officer corps, whose members have long enjoyed a schizophrenic reputation in the historiography as either consummate military professionals or feudalistic representatives of a bygone political system. Using the career of Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939). it reexamines the…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Bofordar en el siglo XIII castellano: entre el entrenamiento militar y el espectáculo caballeresco in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoTal vez uno de los procesos más destacados de la historia de Europa en el siglo XIII sea la configuración de la primera época de esplendor de justas, torneos y todo tipo de espectáculos de riesgo. Aproximadamente entre los años 1170 y 1260, el Viejo Continente asistió a la explosión de estos encuentros, en los que brillaron con luz propia los no…[Read more]
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Heather Rosmarin started the topic Free virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World: “Who Has the Power?”… in the discussion
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoHi Everyone – Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) is hosting a free virtual conference: Opening the Ancient World: “Who Has the Power? Leaders and Leadership in the Ancient World” from August 14 – August 15, 2022. In addition to presentations, there will be several sessions / workshops focused on independent scholars. Learn more here: <…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La época del Cancionero de Baena. Los Trastámara y sus poetas. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoEl presente libro pretende establecer unas premisas básicas en el conocimiento que, desde la perspectiva historiográfica, puede realizarse del Cancionero de Baena, basándose en la inserción de gran parte de sus poemas en el contexto histórico en que fueron compuestos, además de acotar —hasta donde su autor le ha sido posible llegar— las biografía…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Review: Zoila Farfán y Andrés Medina. Al servicio de la Iglesia y la Educación Superior chilena. Crónica de la Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción. Concepción: Ediciones UCSC, 2021. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoLa formación del ser humano constituye una de las acciones más amplias y complejas, constituida como un acto multidimensional de maestros y discípulos que animan a una comunidad, en este caso, la universidad. Esta institución es un espacio de búsqueda del saber y el conocimiento. Su esencia de enseñanza y aprendizaje ha construido unive…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of collective suffering: The case of the Suśrutasaṃhitā in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSlides accompanying a talk presented at a joint research meeting of the Sushruta Project and the Classical Āyurveda Text Study Group in Vienna, July 2022.
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Tensiones de la Guerra Fría: Chile y la Primavera de Praga (1968) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article analyzes the reception and reactions in the Chilean political
debate to the so-called “Prague Spring”, especially in the National Congress, in
August 1968. Methodologically, the historical study consults primary sources,
documents from the Historical Archive of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Segunda República, Beevor la Guerra Civil in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSpanish abstract: La Segunda República española duró no del 31 al 36, sino del 31 al 39, aunque la etapa de la guerra civil (1936-1939) tiene otro carácter, y quizá haya que llamarla a ésa la tercera república. Es normal por tanto que una historia de la guerra civil empiece con una historia de la República. Vemos aquí la perspectiva que sobre el…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias. Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, España in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEntre los años 2020-2022 se han llevado a cabo diversos eventos conmemoratorios de las independencias nacionales, regionales o locales, sin que se haya efectuado un encuentro que los englobara. Este fue el objetivo del Seminario Internacional 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias (Sevilla, diciembre 2021) que ahora da…[Read more]
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