Sökning: "kroppens historia"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden kroppens historia.
1. Kroppens bildning : Linggymnastikens manlighetsprojekt 1790-1914
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2. Kroppens medborgarfostran : Kropp, klass och genus i skolans fysiska fostran 1919-1962
Sammanfattning : The problem forming the basis of this study is why Ling gymnastics, a product of the early 19th Century, was constantly practised in Swedish state-run schools during the 1950s despite the fact that, from the beginning of the 20th Century, it had been questioned by scientists and faced stiff competition from sport. The thesis approaches the question in relation to the state and the body. LÄS MER
3. När kroppen slöt sig och blev fast : Varför åderlåtning, miasmateori och klimatmedicin övergavs vid 1800-talets mitt
Sammanfattning : For 2500 years, bloodletting, purging, climate medicine and the miasmatic theory were the fundaments of Western medicine. But then, over the course of just a few decades during the middle of the nineteenth century, they disappeared. Silently, without having been disproven or even disputed, before the breakthrough of bacteriology. LÄS MER
4. Liksom ett par nya ögon. Frithiof Holmgren och synsinnets problematik
Sammanfattning : This study deals with research on the visual organ as pursued in experimental physiology during the latter half of the nineteenth-century. In the 1850's och 60's experimental physiology developed as a new, scientific discipline within the curriculum of western medicine. LÄS MER
5. Världsmaskinen. Emanuel Swedenborgs naturfilosofi
Sammanfattning : The Swedish natural philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) thought in his early scientific career that the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. The work presented here is a study of his mechanistic worldview and metaphorical way of thinking up to the year 1734, examining most of his fields of interest, from geometry and metaphysics to technology and mining engineering. LÄS MER
