"Pathology" during the 17th and 18th centuries, both in Great Britain and the Continent and in the British colonies of North America, was by no means the well-defined division of medicine that it later became. The name, to be sure, had long been in use (at least since the time of Galen) to signify, rather loosely, the nature of disease.12 It is in the broader sense of the word (i.e., including ...

For this study I have divided the Dutch autobiographical writings about the nazi concentration camps into diaries and letters (11, of which 8 are Jewish, 2 Christian and 1 communist), Jewish memoirs (37), Christian memoirs (35, subdivided into Protestant and Roman-Catholic), and non-religious memoirs (31). On the whole Dutch concentration camp writings show the same formal characteristics as in...

OBJECTIVE The persecution of children as witches has received widespread reportage in the international mass media. In recent years, hundreds of children have been killed, maimed and abandoned across Africa based on individual and village-level accusations of witchcraft. Despite the media focus, to date, very little systematic study has investigated the phenomenon. In this case study, the perse...

Historically, the United States has had a long tradition of medical ethics teaching but not in the sense in which the term is applied today. Traditionally, teaching institutions sponsored by religious denominations primarily Roman Catholic and Jewish have included the study of ethical problems in medicine in their medical, as well as in their other, educational efforts. Seminary students and ot...

BACKGROUND The disclosure of widespread sexual abuse committed by professional educators and clergymen in institutions in Germany ignited a national political debate, in which special attention was paid to church-run institutions. We wanted to find out whether the nature of the abuse and its effect on victims differed depending on whether the abuse had been experienced in religiously affiliated...

poor was already rampant. Alleviation (beyond rather ineffective policing laws) was, in Northern Germany, primarily in the hands of private philanthropy and protestant clergymen. Dr Weidmann surveys the establishment of poor relief in Hamburg, Oldenburg, Prague, Vienna, Hanover, Frankfurt/Main, and Berlin, with specific attention to the care of the sick poor. She shows that an effective system ...

223 " The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex issues. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. To Huxley's famous list of those prone to oversimplification given an appropriate platform, I fear we must add the occasional academic adminis...

The article ‘The ethics of resuscitation’, published in ‘Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy’ 3/2011, aroused much interest of the readers [1]. It deals with an important and often neglected issue of ethical dilemmas associated with decision making about the institution or otherwise of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The involvement of hospital ethics committees in ‘decision making about the insti...

INTRODUCTION The population of the world reached seven billion in 2012. Pakistan's population stands at more than 180 million, is growing rapidly, and has the highest unmet need for family planning (FP) in isolated rural areas. The low usage of contraception in the rural areas of Pakistan correlates with the level of isolation, poverty, illiteracy, and to a large extent, religious misinterpreta...

s monograph does not completely fill this gap; but in its modest and carefully researched way it presents us with the best account yet-albeit one essentially geographically circumscribed to the Eastern Counties-of the social response to surely the most serious and feared epidemic disease from Stuart to Edwardian times. Smith's local researches in Essex confirm that smallpox mortality was often ...