THE GERMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association

In September 2000, the self-styled “anthropological journalist” Patrick Tierney began to make public his work claiming that the Yanomamö people of South America had been actively—indeed brutally—harmed by the sociobiological anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon and the geneticist-physician James Neel. Following a florid summary of Tierney’s claims by the anthropologists Terence Turner and Leslie Spo...

Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context: Philosophical presuppositions and implications of German psychiatry, 1820—1870

MARGARET ROWBOTTOM and CHARLES SUSSKIND, Electricity and medicine. History of their interaction, San Francisco, San Francisco Press; London, Macmillan, 1984, 8vo, pp. vii, 303, illus., £25.00. Considering the use that doctors and other healers have made of electricity, both in practice and in theory, it is surprising how little attention the subject has received from historians. There is ample ...

The German Diabetes Association German College for Psychosomatic Medicine Evidence-based Guidelines of the German Diabetes Association: Psychosocial Factors and Diabetes Mellitus

The Anthropological Determination of Pedagogy

Pedagogy has always been open to other disciplines that reflect about the educational process (philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, technology, etc.). Its interdisciplinary openness puts education, as the subject of pedagogy within a broader context of the community, enabling the knowledge of other disciplines to contribute to a better understanding of the fundamental pedagogical no...

The clinical practice recommendations of the German Diabetes Association.

The German Diabetes Association (DDG) has taken on the task of preparing and publishing evidence based guidelines for the therapy of diabetes mellitus and its complications. This short version of the DDG’s clinical practice recommendations consists of excerpts of the evidence based long versions. These recommendations are reworked once a year. Nevertheless, readers who apply them should still c...