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Der Totenkronenbrauch gehört zu einer einst weit verbreiteten Sitte für jung und ledig Verstorbene beiderlei Geschlechts, denen durch den frühen Tod das Sakrament der Vermählung verwehrt blieb. Optisch symbolisieren dabei für uns die Braut-, zugleich Toten-Kronen und -Sträuße deren stellvertretende 'Himmelshochzeit'. Im Norden Sachsen-Anhalts wurde diese Erinnerungskultur 500 Jahre lang bis in die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts ausgeübt. Die Sachzeugen des Totenkronenbrauchs waren seinerzeit elterlicher Trost bei den vielen Sterbefällen der Kinder und jungen Menschen, aber zugleich auch Statussymbole ihrer Familien. Seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts verschwanden die meisten Objekte aus den Kirchen, wodurch der Brauch nahezu vollständig in Vergessenheit geriet.Dieser Ergänzungsband folgt der 2021 unter dem Titel "Diese Krone weihten tief betrübte Eltern" erschienenen Veröffentlichung. Als neue Quellen konnten u. a. historische Innenaufnahmen von Kirchen erschlossen werden. Hinzu kommen neuzeitliche Grabdenkmäler mit Symbolik des Totenkronenbrauchs und eine Diskussion zu Totenkronen im archäologischen Kontext. Ohne eine Kompletterfassung erreicht zu haben, bezeugen derzeit nunmehr mindestens 109 Ortschaften der Region und insgesamt mehr als 318 Einzelnachweise die einstige Ausübung dieses Brauchs. Aussagen zu Genealogie und Medizin erlauben abermals, die sozialen familiären Verhältnisse der Verstorben zu erhellen und die Todesumstände zu beschreiben. Gerade die Einblicke in die Lebensumstände und in das private Umfeld der Landbevölkerung ermöglichen, zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des nördlichen Sachsen-Anhalts beizutragen. Zudem berechtigt die große Zahl der so jung verstorbenen Menschen ein Gedenken an jene familiären Schicksale und die Bewahrung ihrer Erinnerungsmale für zukünftige Generationen.

Find your ideal foods and cultivate wellness with traditional wisdom.<BR><BR> Exploring the healing power of food, holistic nutritionist Lisa Masé weaves together three ancestral healing philosophies—Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and the Mediterranean diet—with modern nutrition science to help you discover your ideal foods for vibrant health.<BR><BR> The author frames her book with her healing journey to overcome ten years of chronic infection, anxiety, depression, infertility, hypothyroidism, and food sensitivities. She explains how she grew up in Italy, cradled by the Adriatic Sea and the Dolomite mountains, and by returning to her traditional foods and healing herbs she was able to heal herself. She discusses the three kinds of hunger—Heart, Head, and Habit—and offers proven folk and scientific strategies for transforming cravings and changing habits, including meditation, breathwork practices, and realignment of the gut-brain axis via the vagus nerve.<BR><BR> Detailing the healing principles behind Ayurveda, TCM, and the Mediterranean diet, the author provides clear, easy-to-follow instructions for determining your Ayurvedic and Chinese constitution types, which can help you discover how best to heal yourself. She includes food lists for each constitution. Discussing the energetics of food, she explains the importance of personalized nutrition based on genetics, epigenetics, intuitive eating, and seasonal, local foods. She guides you on the path of food sovereignty to regain control of your food. Throughout the book, the author shares recipes, meal plans, and stories to illustrate the concepts she discusses and to help you easily integrate your ancestral healing wisdom into your life.<BR><BR> Showing how to simplify your eating to cultivate wellness, this engaging and comprehensive guide to the culinary pharmacy provides all the knowledge and tools necessary to help you make your food your medicine.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Medical Inquiries and Observations (Volume 4); The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Memoirs of John Abernethy; With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

What makes healers become killers? Inspired by the life of Dr. Leo Alexander, a principal author of the Nuremberg Code, The Eye Begins to See delivers a compelling story of historical insight and psychological intrigue. In 1946 Leo Alexander, Viennese psychiatrist and Jewish refugee, returns to Europe to serve as chief medical counsel to the American prosecution at the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial. There he confronts Karl Brandt, Hitler's chief physician, who has been accused of medical war crimes. Alexander's attempt to understand the psychology of Brandt, and the other Nazi doctors on the docket, shakes him to the core, forcing him to question everything he knows about his scientific principles, ethics, and personal identity. Ultimately he recognizes the need for a universally accepted code of medical ethics in human subject research, leading him to become an author of the Nuremberg Code.<BR>This unique book tells the story of Leo Alexander and the genesis of the Nuremberg Code through a blend of historical fact and the imagination. Readers learn about the origins of the system of ethics guiding our current research with human subjects, why medical ethics are so necessary, and the challenges in creating and implementing them. In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in the medical profession in the medical humanities. Educators are actively searching for ways to incorporate art and literature in medical training. The Eye Begins to See is an excellent vehicle for a creative approach to teaching medical ethics and humanism.

Tras los éxitos de El emperador de todos los males y El gen, Siddhartha Mukherjee se adentra en la increíble y apasionante historia de la célula. 'En un relato a la vez lírico y amplio, Mukherjee nos lleva a través de una historia de la comprensión humana: desde el descubrimiento en el siglo XVII de que estamos formados por células hasta la actual tecnología de vanguardia para manipular y desplegar células con fines terapéuticos'.Th e New Yorker Bienvenidos a la apasionante historia de la célula. En este nuevo libro, el oncólogo y divulgador Siddhartha Mukherjee nos acompaña en un viaje fascinante a partir de uno de los mayores descubrimientos científicos de la historia: el hecho de que todos los organismos vivos complejos estén constituidos por unidades diminutas, autónomas y autorreguladas, esas que en el siglo XVII Robert Hooke vio a través de su microscopio y bautizó con el nombre que hoy conocemos. Aquel hallazgo, seguido de una cada vez mejor comprensión de la fisiología celular, cambió para siempre (y aún determina) la manera en que abordamos la medicina, la ciencia, la biología, las estructuras sociales y hasta la cultura. Una fractura de cadera, una parada cardiaca, el Alzheimer, el sida, un cáncer de pulmón... todo, absolutamente todo, puede explicarse como el resultado del funcionamiento anómalo de las células o de los ecosistemas que estas forman. Y también todo debería poder tratarse mediante su manipulación terapéutica. Esta revolución en el campo de la biología celular ya ha demostrado resultados transformadores y hoy se plantea como uno de los avances científicos que más vidas pueden salvar.Críticas:'Maravillosamente ambiciosa. La biología de la célula es compleja y colosal como la vida misma. No creo que ningún escritor pudiera tratar este asunto mejor'.The Times 'En parte misterio, en parte historia de aventuras, La armonía de la célula es una irresistible incursión en los confines de la ciencia médica y un recordatorio del poder del ingeniohumano que probablemente dejará a los lectores asombrados y esperanzados'.Jennifer Egar, autora ganadora del Pulitzer 'La escritura de La armonía de la célula es tan agradable que te dejas llevar por su música'.The New York Times 'Con una investigación profunda, La armonía de la célula es un extraordinario viaje a través de la historia de los descubrimientos hasta llegar a la medicina celular más innovadora que se practica en la actualidad y a la promesa de lo que está por venir'.Paul Nurse, Premio Nobel de Fisiología y Medicina en 2001 'Un narrador extraordinariamente dotado. Las ideas del autor sobre el futuro próximo de la medicina son tan convincentes como inspiradoras. Otro éxito de Mukherjee'.Publishers Weekly'Una exploración fiable, oportuna y, lo que es más importante, biológicamente precisa de lo que significa ser humano'.The Guardian

Medicina Flagellata; Or, The Doctor Scarify'd, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

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This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine. It records their strategies for overcoming initial resistance among physicians and philosophers and (in the East) politicians. This work traces their different approaches, such as socialist versus liberal bioethics; illustrates their attempt to introduce a culture of dialogue in medicine; and examines their moral ambiguities inherent to the institutionalization of bioethics and in law. Furthermore, the essays in this work pay special attention to the problem of ethics expertise in the context of a pluralism, which the intellectual mainstream of the country seeks to reduce to "varieties of post-traditionalism". Finally, this book addresses the problem of "patient autonomy",and highlights the difficulty of harmonizing commitment to professional integrity with the project of enhancing physician's responsiveness to suffering patients. As these essays illustrate, the development of bioethics in Germany does not follow a linear line of progressiveness, but rather retains a sense of the traditional ethos of the guild. An ethos, however, that is challenged by moral pluralism in such a way that, even today, still requires adequate solutions. A must read for all academics interested in the origins and the development of bioethics.

This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561-1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. As trivial as the quantitative assessment of health issues might seem to us today - in times of fitness trackers and smart watches - it was highly innovative at that time. With his instruments, Sanctorius introduced quantitative research into the field of physiology. Historical accounts of Sanctorius and his work tend to tell the story of a genius who, almost out of the blue, invented a new medical science, based on measurement and quantification, that profoundly influenced modernity. Abandoning the "genius narrative," this book examines Sanctorius and his work in the broader perspective of processes of knowledge transformation in early modern medicine. It is the first systematic study to include the entire rangeof the physician's intellectual and practical activities. Adopting a material culture perspective, the research draws on the contemporary reconstruction of Sanctorius's most famous instrument: the Sanctorian weighing chair. And here it departs from past studies that focus mainly on Sanctorius's thinking rather than on his making and doing. The book also re-evaluates Sanctorius's role in the wider process of the early transformation of medical culture in the early modern period, a process that ultimately led to the abandonment of Galenic medicine and to the introduction of a new medical science, based on the use of quantification and measurement in medical research. The book is therefore an important contribution to the history of medicine and historical epistemology aimed at historians of science and philosophy.

The martyrdom of Nurse Cavell; The life story of the victim of Germany's most barbarous crime, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

Medical experts: Investigation of Insanity by Juries, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from scanned copies.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in nineteenth-century Britain. It begins by looking at a community of doctors and patients who lived and worked in the streets surrounding the Middlesex Hospital in London. It follows in their footsteps as they walked the labyrinthine lanes and passages that branched off Tottenham Court Road; then, through seven chapters, its focus expands to successively include the rivers, lakes, and forests of England, the mountains, poverty, and hunger of the four nations of the British Isles, the reluctant and resistant inhabitants of the British Empire, and the networks of scientists and doctors spread across Europe and North America.The Cancer Problem: Malignancy in Nineteenth-Century Britain argues that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.