Aristotle: His Life and School

Pavlov and His School

The book offers a rather lifeless presentation of the subject which it embraces, for there is practically no reference to tissues while living. In these days when so much of value and interest is known about tissues in the living state it seems that the cell should be allowed to say something for itself before it becomes a corpse. This book attempts to be two things; a biography of Ivan Pavlov ...

Aristotle, the “Good Life,” and Athenian Democracy:

Life is Movement (Aristotle, 4th century BC)

During our clinical or outpatient contacts we often tell patients with coronary heart disease that physical activity will lessen the burden of their disease, reduce their risk of mortality and enhance their quality of life. However, after delivering this one-liner we have no illusions that patients will start moving and stay active straight away. Many practical barriers deter them and behaviour...

Semmelweis: his Life and Work

Wildberger became a renowned local figure and received an honorary medical doctorate from Jena and many foreign honours. In later life he moved his institute to Forchheim, where he had the assistance of his medically-qualified son before the latter emigrated to America. His writings on the proper training of orthopaedic surgeons, with their insistence on early specialist education in methods an...

Sherrington. His life and thought

Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...