Changing LIBER

Censorini de die natali liber

parts; an essay on the beginnings of American pharmacology; a bibliographic essay on the history of American pharmacology in academia, government, industry, and charitable foundations; and brief biographies of twenty-six prominent deceased American pharmacologists. The first part traces the evolution of pharmacology from primitive studies, through the work of Magendie and Bernard and the first ...

Liber Mathematicae: A Web-Based Documentation and Collaboration Project for Mathematics

Traditionally, mathematical knowledge is published in printed media such as books or journals. With the advent of the Internet, a new method of publication became available. To date, however, most online mathematical publications do not employ the full capabilities of the medium. For example, the arXiv preprint server [1] hosts documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF), a format desig...

Krankheitsbilder im Liber de Plantis der Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) und im Speyerer Kräuterbuch (1456)

predecessors in the field have been confined to Latin texts from Antiquity and the early Middle Ages; here there is consideration of Greek material as well. The main theme is clear from the title. Most ancient authorities in the Hippocratic-Galenic tradition considered naming the disease essential, both intellectually and therapeutically. They bequeathed a large and florid vocabulary, many of t...

Changing perceptions, changing reality.

Changing families, changing workplaces.

American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education-related inequality in work hours and income has grown. These changes, says Suzanne Bianchi, pose differing work-life issues for parents at different points along the income distribution. Between 1975 and 2009, the labor force ...