Schach der Gesundheit!

Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte

ARTHUR E. IMHOF (editor), Mensch und Gesundheit in der Geschichte (Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften, no. 39), Husum, Matthiesen Verlag, 1980, 8vo. pp. vii, 415, DM. 69.00 (paperback). This volume is the outcome of an international colloquium held in Berlin on 20-23 September 1978. A research project on the topic of 'Men and Health in History' by a group of soc...

Homo Hygienicus: Gesundheit und Medizin in der Neuzeit

symbolic architecture of the children's hospital. In many ways the most ambitious of the essays in this volume (the author is forced, not least, to get to grips with the very notion of the "history of childhood") it reads as a preliminary study, a promise of further investigations to come. By contrast, Alfons Labisch offers in the concluding historical essay, 'The social construction of health'...

Normierung der Gesundheit. Messende Verfahren der Medizin als kulturelle Praktik um 1900

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, "norms" became prominent in sciences from physiology to psychiatry, anthropology to genetics, criminology to embryology, and in such rationalizing movements as Taylorism and eugenics. Norming health: medical measuring as a cultural practice around 1900, based on a workshop organized by Volker Hess in Berlin in September 1996, is a collective attempt to...

Genetische Programmierung und Schach

Gesundheit! Modeling Contagion through Facebook News Feed

Whether they are modeling bookmarking behavior in Flickr or cascades of failure in large networks, models of diffusion often start with the assumption that a few nodes start long chain reactions, resulting in large-scale cascades. While reasonable under some conditions, this assumption may not hold for social media networks, where user engagement is high and information may enter a system from ...