Wissenschaftliche Literatur unani

Frank Kressing

Heilung zwischen Welten – Zur Kulturgeschichte des medizinischen Wissenstransfers zwischen Europa und dem Vorderen Orient

Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

Schriften zur Ideen- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Diese Publikation ist dem Transfer medizinischen Wissens zwischen Orient und Okzident, zwischen christlichen und muslimischen Kulturen, zwischen Europa, Nordafrika und Asien gewidmet.

Ausgehend von der der antiken griechisch-sprachigen Medizin des östlichen Mittelmeerraums, die auf empirischer Naturbeobachtung beruht, wurden Theorien und Kenntnisse einer rationalen Medizin seit dem 7. Jahrhundert in die entstehende islamische Welt vermittelt. Diese so genannte arabische Medizin erfuhr zahlreiche Beiträge syrisch-aramäischer, jüdischer, iranischer und indischer…

Victoria Yiwumi Faison

Protecting Victims Within Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union

Schriften zum ausländischen Recht

Over the years, the response of international law to trafficking has witnessed several reforms. The last of these, adopted in 2000, has been quite influential on the reformation and the adoption of trafficking regulations within the EU and its Member States. However, legislating against trafficking within the EU almost a century after international law first addressed the phenomenon indicates the questionable commanding force of the later.

In the area of sex trafficking, prostitution on the other hand, with a debatable role in perpetuating sex trafficking,…

Timo Menniken

Hydrological Regionalism in the Mekong and the Nile Basin

International Politics Along Transboundary Watercourses

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

As bipolarism was dissolving, in the 1990s, the perceived threat of nuclear war decreased, while the demand for a redefinition, or rather expansion of the term and comprehension of international security has increased. The concept of “ecological vulnerability” is a brainchild of this process and has significantly influenced the post-Cold War security debate.

According to this concept, the security risks deriving from ecologically generated instability were subject to intensive debate and examination in the early 1990s, triggering the evolution of research in…