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The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany
Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do not just have significance for the people who feel them. They have also exerted a surprisingly profound influence on how hospitals and laboratories dealt with cancer, how early detection campaigns portrayed it, and how doctors talked about it with their patients. Bettina Hitzer details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems. In doing so, the study underscores that political caesuras resonate in the immediate corporeality of the history of emotions.
Gender and Protest
For centuries women and other “gendered minorities” had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies that intended to return to “old orders” or “good old times.” The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship between gender and protest and analyze in detail how gender-related perspectives stimulated protests and initiated historical changes. Through historical case studies that range from antiquity until modern times, specialists from different countries and disciplines discuss reasons for protest, gender as a factor that stimulated social conflicts, and the power of gendered protests of the past with regards to their impact and long-term impact until today.
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The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences
How did epidemics, zoos, German exiles, methamphetamine, disgruntled technicians, modern bureaucracy, museums, and whipping cream shape the emergence of modern neuroscience?
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. Sterilization programs—particularly involuntary sterilization programs—were responding both nationally and internationally to social anxieties produced by the perceived connection between mental degeneration and heredity. Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics illustrates how the emerging field of psychiatry and its concerns about inheritable conditions was heavily influenced by eugenic thought and contributed to the longevity of sterilization practices in Western Canada. Using institutional case studies, biographical accounts, and...
Religion and Poverty
Nowadays religions are especially important for those who are living in countries of the formerly so-called 'Third World'. The miseries of life seem to be so hard that just an afterlife in a transcendent paradise is promising relief. Consequently, there seems to be a close connection between religion and poverty, especially in the 21st century, when the hope for a better afterlife has become a driving force of the poor population of the world. However, what could be interpreted as a proof of the Marxist doctrine of religion as opium of the people, for sure deserves a more multiperspectival approach, which would not just cover the recent years of human history, but past centuries as well as the different religions around the globe. Therefore the second issue of Global Humanities traces the interrelationship between religion and poverty not only from a historical, but also from a sociological, religious and artistic perspective.
Making Unity More Visible
This second quinquennial report from the Meissen Commission describes a busy and fruitful period of fellowship and common mission between the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in the years 1997-2001. Parish, diocesan and other links have grown, intense theological dialogue has taken place, and the two Churches have strengthened their work together in ministerial development and a wide range of other areas of ecumenical co-operation and reconciliation. The report brings to the Churches an ambitious set of recommendations for the next five years. These include initiatives in the key mission area of passing on the faith to the next generation, and detailed proposals for the setting up of Local Ecumenical Partnerships under the Meissen Agreement.
Visual Culture and Pandemic Disease Since 1750
Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1920s when, amidst expanding Western industrialism, colonialism, and scientific research, the world endured a succession of pandemics in tandem with the rise of popular visual culture and new media. Images discussed range from the depiction of people and places to the invisible realms of pathogens and emotions, while topics include the messaging of disease prevention and containment in public health initiatives, the motivations of governments to ensure control, the criticism of authority in graphic satire, and the private experience of illness in the domestic realm. Essays explore biomedical conditions as well as the recurrent constructed social narratives of bias, blame, and othering regarding race, gender, and class that are frequently highlighted in visual representations. This volume offers a pictured genealogy of pandemic experience that has continuing resonance. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, history of medicine, and medical humanities.
Der Fremdkörper
Im sechsten Band der Reihe ""Aspekte der Medizinphilosophie"" befassen sich insgesamt dreißig Beiträge mit dem Themenkomplex ""Fremdkörper"". Fremdkörper dringen in den Körper ein, bewegen sich in ihm, nisten sich ein. Ob natürlich oder künstlich, zerstören sie den Körper, erhalten aber auch seine Funktionen, transformieren ihn gar und erweitern seine Fähigkeiten. Fremdkörper werden gezielt eingesetzt oder finden ihren Weg einzeln oder im Verbund auf ihre Weise, oft mit viralen Strategien. Der Körper dient Fremdkörpern als Nahrung, doch auch er selbst verzehrt Fremdkörper und fremd.
Humana - Animalia
Mensch und Tier teilen sich die Erde. Sie begegnen sich als Rivalen, Jäger und Gejagte, Freund und Helfer, Schützer und Beschützter, Wächter und Bewachter, in Abhängigkeits-, Nutz- und Freundschaftsverhältnissen, an verschiedenen Stationen der Nahrungskette, in reziproken oder einseitigen Beziehungen, als Konkurrenten oder Komplemente. Da Tiere in der menschlichen Erfahrungswelt von alltäglicher Präsenz sind, haben sie deutliche Spuren im kollektiven Gedächtnis der verschiedenen menschlichen Kulturen hinterlassen. Die sogenannten Human Animal Studies sind ein relativ neues Forschungsfeld, das sich seit einigen Jahren im interdisziplinären Diskurs kritisch mit den vielfältigen Beziehungen und Interaktionen zwischen Menschen und Tieren sowie der kulturellen und sozialen Rolle von Tieren, Tierquälerei, Tierschutz, Tiermedizin und der umstrittenen Frage nach der Trennlinie zwischen Mensch und Tier auseinandersetzt. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bands repräsentieren die umrissene Vielschichtigkeit des komplexen Themas und werfen Schlaglichter auf die zentralen Themenbereiche dieses Forschungsfelds.
