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Martin Boehnert deposited Nicht-triviale Trivialitäten in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOn the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोरोना के संक्रामक आतंक को जरा ‘जूम’ करके देखें in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years agoकोरोना की आड़ में जो कुछ हुआ है, उस पर नजर रखना आवश्यक है। ऐसी अनेक छोटी-छोटी घटनाएं हैं, जिनकी ओर प्राय: हमारी नजर नहीं जाती। वैश्विक स्वास्थ्य बाजार के किंग पिन माने जाने बिल गेट्स इनमें से अधिकांश घटनाओं से आपको जुड़े हुए दिखाई देते हैं। ऐसा ही एक मामला वीडियो कॉलिंग की सर्विस देने वाले ‘जूम’ से संबंधित था।
वस्तुत: यह सब सिर्फ व्यापा…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड 19: पत्रकारिता से क्यों गायब हैं सवाल in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years agoफ़रवरी, 2020 तक भारतीय अख़बारों में दुनिया में एक नये वायरस के फैलने की सूचना प्रमुखता से आने लगी थी।
अख़बारों ने हमें बताया कि कोविड-19 सबसे अधिक जानलेवा है। लेकिन यह नहीं बताया कि हमारी हिंदी पट्टी में टी.बी, चमकी बुख़ार, न्यूमोनिया, मलेरिया आदि से मरने वालों की एक विशाल संख्या है। इन बीमारियों से सिर्फ़ हिंदी पट्टी में हर साल 5 से 7 लाख…[Read more] -
Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Epidemiology in the Bhelasaṃhitā: The Chapter on Distinctions According to Land and People in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoPresentation in the working group “History of Science in Early South Asia” at https://www.chstm.org/early-south-asia on Dec. 19th 2022.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बजट 2021: मौत, अकाल की आहट और आर्थिक असमानता पर चुप्पी क्यों? in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoभारत में क्या हालत हो चुकी है, इसका अनुमान दिसंबर, 2020 में हुए एक सर्वेक्षण से लगता है। इस सर्वेक्षण के अनुसार भारत की आधी से अधिक आबादी को कोरोना-काल में पहले की तुलना में कम भोजन मिल रहा है। इनमें ज़्यादातर दलित और आदिवासी हैं।
लेकिन इन सूचनाओं से भी अधिक भयावह यह है कि भारत का बौद्धिक वर्ग, ग़रीबों के सर पर मँडराते मौत के इस साये से प्…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Medication or Magic? Mantras in Early Āyurveda in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited COVID-19, science and responsibility of the intellectuals in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Der Offenbarungseid in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoWissenschaftler und Denker haben sich widerstandslos für die Durchsetzung der herrschenden Corona-Agenda einspannen lassen.
Der durch das Coronavirus veranlasste Lockdown hat nicht nur unsere körperliche Freiheit ausgehöhlt, sondern auch unsere geistige Freiheit untergraben. In vielen Ländern wurde für das Denken Käfighaltung angeordnet. Offen…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महामारी के दौर में डॉक्टरों की भूमिका, सीमाएं और प्रोटोकॉल के कुछ सवाल in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoअधिकांश लोग समझते हैं कि चिकित्सक ही जांच द्वारा तय करते हैं कि किसे कोविड है और किसे नहीं तथा अगर किसी की मौत होती है तो चिकित्सक ही यह तय करते हैं कि वह मृत्यु कोविड से हुई है या किसी अन्य कारण से। इसलिए जब कोई खुद को चिकित्सक बताता है या अपने परिवार में चिकित्सकों के होने का ज़िक्र करता है तो लोग उसकी बात पर अनिवार्य रूप से विश्वास करते ह…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Covid-19: Role and limitations of doctors and treatment protocols in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoAs was expected, the country is witnessing an explosion of Covid cases, leading to chaos and mayhem. People are dying for want of oxygen. The protocol for the treatment of Covid patients is faulty and that is one reason for the high number of deaths. Thanks to the protocol, deaths due to other causes are also being added to the Covid toll. In this…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Combining Atomism with Galenic Medicine: The Physiological Theory of Isaac Beeckman (1616-1627) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science 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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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, 3 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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Alison Fox started the topic An open access history of scientific journals in the discussion
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoUCL Press has just published an open access book that will be of interest to many members of this community: A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 by Aileen Fyfe, Noah Moxham, Julie McDougall-Waters, and Camilla Mørk Røstvik. It can be downloaded free from: https://bit.ly/3Rws4bS
Modern scientific research h…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoLynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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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