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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden History subjects History of science and ideas.
6. Att bota en drinkare : idéer och praktik i svensk alkoholistvård 1885 - 1916
Sammanfattning : The focus for this thesis is the alcoholic care in Sweden from the establishment of the first alcoholic institution in 1885 and the years right after the compulsory care act was passed in 1913. In the thesis the practical activity at the four first alcoholic institutions is examined, but also the ideas concerning alcoholic care that were formulated by the men that were the institutions initiators and responsible for the activities. LÄS MER
7. Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik
Sammanfattning : “There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. LÄS MER
8. Folkhemmets röst : radion som folkbildare 1925-1950
Sammanfattning : The present thesis deals with radio and adult education. It shows how Swedish radio, in cooperation with the governing authorities, the academic and (primarily) radical elite, succeeded in popularizing the ideaof the folkhem and its ideology, with the ambition of both modernizing and democratizing the Swedish population en masse. LÄS MER
9. Psykets laboratorium : Skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken
Sammanfattning : Psykets laboratorium – skildringar av drogexperiment i Weimarrepubliken investigates texts produced during psychiatric self-experiments with psychedelic drugs in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, featuring the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) as a research subject. In these self-experiments, physicians and volunteer subjects wrote down their experiences of psychotic states that were evoked through the use of psychedelic drugs. LÄS MER
10. Ludwik Flecks jämförande kunskapsteori
Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the opposition of Ludwik Fleck to the logical positivism. The main interest focuses on the mutability of knowledge and the inherent problems of incommensura-bility, as well as on Fleck´s notion of reality. LÄS MER