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PubMed1980

Medicus magus.

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History, 19th Century↗
PubMed1990

Faustian phenomena: teleology in Goethe's interpretation of plants and animals.

J.W. von Goethe was a daring and wide-ranging biologist as well as a great playwright. His work was a whole: for him, theory and theatre were both based on keen observation of life. Even 'Faustian' striving, the blind upward urge of life, can be found in significant details of organisms and their evolution, according to Goethe. Such observations cannot be dismissed as sheer poetry. On the contrary, his teleology provides a broad empirical background for the organismic approach in bio-medical science, while exposing inconsistencies in strict reductionist doctrines.

Animal Population Groups↗
PubMed1991

When genius errs: R.A. Fisher and the lung cancer controversy.

R.A. Fisher's work on lung cancer and smoking is critically reviewed. The controversy is placed in the context of his career and personality. Although Fisher made invaluable contributions to the field of statistics, his analysis of the causal association between lung cancer and smoking was flawed by an unwillingness to examine the entire body of data available and prematurely drawn conclusions. His views may also have been influenced by personal and professional conflicts, by his work as a consultant to the tobacco industry, and by the fact that he was himself a smoker.

England↗
PubMed1988

Dyskeratosis and the dyskeratoses.

Darier first described dyskeratotic cells as infectious agents, but he later wrote that they were caused by abnormal keratinization. He grouped various inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic skin diseases under the term "dyskeratoses." It is argued herein that the dyskeratotic cell and the so-called dyskeratoses have not been defined in a consistent manner because Darier's concepts were incorrect. Darier's dyskeratotic cell is classified here as one type of necrotic keratinocyte. Some conditions in which dyskeratotic and necrotic keratinocytes occur are described.

Acantholysis↗
PubMed1990

The language of dermatology and dermatopathology from Robert Willan to A. Bernard Ackerman.

Contemporary dermatologists often use sophisticated, striking forms of communication in the exposition of their ideas. Among their innovative techniques is the pseudodialogue, which permits them to summarize and attack the arguments of other researchers while at the same time asserting their own views. Earlier generations of dermatologists were well aware of the need for appropriate and even unconventional linguistic techniques. We contend that the current notion on the part of linguists that scientific language rigidly conforms to certain patterns-for example, the idea that scientific style is essentially impersonal-is much in need of revision. Indeed the conventions have been broken for centuries by leading dermatologists, often deliberately and consciously.

Dermatology↗