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Open AccessAn ethical assessment of professional opinions on concerns, chances, and limitations of the implementation of an artificial intelligence-based technology into the geriatric patient treatment and continuity of care
With the introduction of an artificial intelligence-based dashboard into the clinic, the project SURGE-Ahead responds to the importance of improving perioperative geriatric patient treatment and continuity of ...
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Das Enchiridion medicinae (1573) – ein pharmazeutisches Kurzhandbuch, zusammengestellt von Georg Henisch
Im Jahr 1573 veröffentlichte Georg Henisch ein pharmazeutisches Kurzhandbuch, Enchiridion medicinae. Es enthält Heilmittel gegen gesundheitliche Beschwerden, ohne weitere Angaben zur Wirkung oder die Art der Anwe...
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Open AccessWhy do transgender individuals experience discrimination in healthcare and thereby limited access to healthcare? An interview study exploring the perspective of German transgender individuals
Transgender individuals experience limited access to healthcare. This results not least from experiences of discrimination to which they are exposed in the health system. These contribute to transgender indivi...
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Open AccessUsable and Useful Help in Literature Database Search? A Pedagogical Implementation and the Evaluation of an Interactive Screencast for Iraqi University Students
While university students in develo** countries welcome digital learning tools, they frequently lack Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills which enable them to successfully carry out activiti...
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Open AccessEqual access to healthcare in national legislations: how do Croatia, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia counteract discrimination in healthcare?
The aim of the study was a comparative analysis of legislative measures against discrimination in healthcare on the grounds of a) race and ethnicity, b) religion and belief, and c) gender identity and sexual o...
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Correction to: Medical Students’ Acquaintance with Core Concepts, Institutions and Guidelines on Good Scientific Practice: A Pre- and Post-questionnaire Survey
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Der nutz auß den Krautgärten. Georg Henischs Übersetzungen pharmazeutischer Werke
Georg Henisch (1549–1618) stammte aus der heute slowakischen Stadt Bardejov (Bartfeld) und übersetzte vier in Latein verfasste pharmazeutische Schriften ins Deutsche. Drei dieser Werke waren von dem bekannten ...
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Open AccessImpotenz und Hexenglauben: Ein medizinischer Traktat des Ulmer Stadtarztes Wolfgang Reichart (1486–1547)
Der Hexenglaube beeinflusste im 16. Jahrhundert das medizinische Denken und Handeln. Der Ulmer Stadtarzt Wolfgang Reichart (1486–1547) hat in einem bisher unbekannten Traktat die Impotenz eines Patienten mit m...
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Open AccessNormative framework of informed consent in clinical research in Germany, Poland, and Russia
Biomedical research nowadays is increasingly carried out in multinational and multicenter settings. Due to disparate national regulations on various ethical aspects, such as informed consent, there is the risk...
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Open AccessBalancing public health and civil liberties in times of pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic constitutes not only a danger for public health, but may also threaten civil liberties. Looking at the examples of recent events in Poland and Hungary, the authors argue that gove...
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Cancer, the Media and Dealing with Knowledge
Among the primary function of the media are conveying personal understanding and expanding the subjective knowledge of the recipient citizen. A particular challenge arising during this process is the mediation...
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Open AccessSocial diversity and access to healthcare in Europe: how does European Union’s legislation prevent from discrimination in healthcare?
Social diversity can affect healthcare outcomes in situations when access to healthcare is limited for specific groups. Although the principle of equality is one of the central topics on the agenda of the Euro...
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Open AccessMedical Students’ Acquaintance with Core Concepts, Institutions and Guidelines on Good Scientific Practice: A Pre- and Post-questionnaire Survey
German medical students are not sufficiently introduced to the ethical principles and pitfalls of scientific work. Therefore, a compulsory course on good scientific practice (GSP) has been developed and implem...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in the Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Since 1989, clinical ethics consultation in form of hospital ethics committees (HECs) was established in most of the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Up to now, the similarities and differen...
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Open AccessDonor information in research and drug evaluation with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) opened the possibilities for reprogramming cells back to a pluripotent state. Because of no apparent ethical issues connected with donation and derivatio...
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Good Scientific Practice: Develo** a Curriculum for Medical Students in Germany
German medical schools have not yet sufficiently introduced students to the field of good scientific practice (GSP). In order to prevent scientific misconduct and to foster scientific integrity, courses on GSP...
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Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von: Psychopathia sexualis
In seinem Lehrbuch Psychopathia sexualis von 1886 erklärt Krafft-Ebing Sexualpathologie anhand von Fallberichten. In seiner Vorstudie „Ueber gewisse Anomalien des Geschlechtstriebs und die klinisch-forensische Ve...
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Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
Das Sachbuch aus dem 13. Jh. ist ein populärer Gesundheitsratgeber in Versen, der sich auf Diätetik und Hygiene bezieht, verfasst im spanischen Toledo, benannt aber nach Salerno, der bekannten Stätte hoher med...
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Krafft-Ebing, Richard Freiherr von
Studium der Medizin in Heidelberg und Zürich; 1863 Promotion; 1868 Psychologie bei Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig; 1873 Ordinariat für Psychiatrie in Graz; 1889 Leitung der I. und s...
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Kneipp, Sebastian: Meine Wasser-Kur
Das 1887 erschienene Sachbuch über Wasseranwendungen ist eine Anleitung zur Selbstbehandlung mit Wasseranwendungen und milden Heilkräutern, die aus Kneipps praktischer Tätigkeit mit Patienten in Wörishofen ent...
