Georg Witzel und Justus Jonas

Michael Witzel

In this paper two fundamental myths and the related rituals from archaic India and old Japan are compared. Exploring their close mutual relationship offers the chance of taking another look at comparative mythology in a wholly new way. This is not done in the old Frazerian way, certainly not in the manner of the diffusionists such as Frobenius and Baumann, nor with the Indo-European-centered me...

Humanismus zwischen Hof und Universität: Georg Tannstetter (Collimitius) und sein wissenschaftliches Umfeld im Wien des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts

In this volume Dr Bray-a former vice-president of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene-seeks to show "that the course of history has been and can be affected by the major pandemics of infectious disease". "Practitioner history" generally enjoys low esteem in the eyes of medical historians, and-with some very distinguished exceptions-this is all too often justified by an anecdotal...

Georg Bauer

Justus Liebig University Giessen

Business practice and literature frequently advocate more business oriented roles for management accountants. The aim of this study is to examine reasons for management accountants to act as business partners and to analyze corresponding performance effects. More specifically, two research questions are investigated: (i) why do management accountants act as business partners, and (ii) are busin...

Michael St. Pierre, Georg Breuer (eds): Simulation in der Medizin – innovativ, effektiv und zukunftsweisend

Das Buch „Simulation in der Medizin – innovativ, effektiv und zukunftsweisend“ (Springer-Verlag) kommt gerade zur rechten Zeit: Die Medizinischen Fakultäten der D-ACH-Region, also in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, haben seit einiger Zeit den Nutzen simulationsbasierter Ausbildung kennen und schätzen gelernt. Nationale Lernzielkataloge existieren (CH und A) oder werden mit Nachdruck au...