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| A KarenbergSummaryAffiliation: University of Cologne Country: Germany Publications
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[Early history of Pick's disease]A Karenberg
Institut fur Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Universitat zu Koln
Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 69:545-50. 2001..This concept gained acceptance in the German and Anglo-American scientific community and was the starting point for further investigations in the 1950s and 1960s...
Samuel Thomas Soemmerring (1755-1830)F P Moog
, , Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 9, 50931, , Germany
J Neurol 251:1420-1. 2004
Next emperor, please! No end to retrospective diagnosticsAxel Karenberg
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Germany
J Hist Neurosci 13:143-9; discussion 166-7. 2004
Between horror and hope: gladiator's blood as a cure for epileptics in ancient medicineFerdinand Peter Moog
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Joseph Stelzmann Strasse 9 Gebäude 29, D 50931 Cologne, Germany
J Hist Neurosci 12:137-43. 2003..Spontaneous recovery of some forms of epilepsy may be responsible for the illusion of therapeutic effectiveness and for the confirming statements by physicians who have commented on this cure...
St. Francis came at dawn--the miraculous recovery of a hemiplegic monk in the Middle AgesFerdinand Peter Moog
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Joseph Stelzmann Strasse 9, D 50931 Cologne, Germany
J Neurol Sci 213:15-7. 2003..Retrospective neurological diagnoses range from a prolonged ischemic neurological deficit (PRIND) to psychogenesis. This case history is a rare example of faith healing in its contemporary context...
Cerebral localization in the eighteenth century--an overviewAxel Karenberg
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
J Hist Neurosci 18:248-53. 2009..This paper reconstructs the era's principle arguments and contemporary experiments. It demonstrates that some current controversies regarding the mind-body problem are repetitions of eighteenth-century neuro-philosophical debates...
["Transforming poetry into reality"--figures in the legends of antiquity in modern medicine]A Karenberg
, , Cologne
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 128:2698-706. 2003
[Sinners and saints]A Karenberg
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Dtsch Med Wochenschr 129:2757-65. 2004
[Poetry and pathology. Literary figures as models for disease terms]A Karenberg
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Dtsch Med Wochenschr 130:2971-8. 2005
Retrospective diagnosis: use and abuse in medical historiographyA Karenberg
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Koln, Germany
Prague Med Rep 110:140-5. 2009..Only with a fundamentally revised method, a more critical approach to retrospective diagnostics, and far more serious objectives will medical biographies be in a position to break new ground...
Johann Jakob Wepfer (1620-1695)A Karenberg
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann-Str. 9, , 50931 Cologne, Germany
J Neurol 251:501-2. 2004
Headache in magical and medical papyri of ancient EgyptA Karenberg
Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Cephalalgia 21:911-6. 2001..Treatment could be magical, pharmacological or surgical. Examples of incantations and prescriptions are analysed in detail...
[The portrayal of multiple sclerosis in television series]A Karenberg
Institut fur Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin, Universitat zu Koln, Koln, Germany
Nervenarzt 80:415-21. 2009..An increasing number of television series deal with neurological disorders, including fictional portrayals of multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this paper was to analyze every available TV episode with an MS character...
