Wissenschaftliche LiteraturMedici

Hisaki Hashi (Hrsg.)

Philosophy of Nature in Cross-Cultural Dimensions

The Result of the International Symposium at the University of Vienna

Komparative Philosophie und Interdisziplinäre Bildung (KoPhil)

This is the collected work of the “International Symposium: Philosophy of Nature?, given in May 2016 at the University of Vienna, organized by the “Verein für Komparative Philosophie und Interdisziplinäre Bildung / KoPhil? in Vienna. The elaborated documents by the 30 authors from Europe, Russia, East Asia,…

Christogonus Onyekachi Keke

The Misery of Childless Marriage in Igbo Culture

Re-Consideration of Ecclesiastical Ethical Response to Cultural and Biomedical “Remedies”

Ethik in Forschung und Praxis

Infertility is a universal problem but the crisis it poses for Christian couples in the African cultural context differs from the experience in Western cultures. The root of the problem is the conflict in the understanding of marriage in African culture and the Christian marriage ethics, which makes it difficult…

Daniel Renjewski

An Engineering Contribution to Human Gait Biomechanics

Schriftenreihe naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Walking is something we do every day without thinking much about it. Therefore it is surprising to learn, how little we know about mechanics and control of walking. This becomes obvious when you look at contemporary anthropomorphic walking machines, that are far from moving as dynamic as their human archetypes.…

Jörg Reimann

Florenz und Toskana 1450 bis 1650

Politik, Wirtschaft, Bevölkerung und Kultur

Studien zur Geschichtsforschung der Neuzeit

Obwohl in diesem Band dem Leser die Medici auf allen vier thematischen Ebenen begegnen, handelt es sich doch um keine Familiengeschichte. Die Hauptkapitel Politik, Wirtschaft, Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Kultur in der Toskana 1450-1650 zeigen die hier wirkenden Kräfte auch aus der Sicht von Zeitgenossen und der…

Lisa Mackenrodt

Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania

The Jinn Fly on Friday

Fern/Sehen: Perspektiven der Sozialanthropologie

This account embeds Swahili spirit possession and Islamic healing rituals into its particular geographical, cultural and historical context. It gives an overview of the historical development of the syncretistic Muslim-Swahili littoral in East Africa. A special emphasis is put on Afro-Arab history in relation to…

Victor Tchoubarov

Human Beeing Biorythmical Profile and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Schriftenreihe naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The new exact method of appraisal of chronobiorhythmology of onto- and pathogenesis of a human being as suggested, are based upon the making of a new chronoscale on mutual Sun-Moon rhythms (SM-rhythms). Technique of coding the disease, birth or death with SM-rhythms is used. This process makes it possible to…