Arts
Euthanasia Machine
It all started innocently enough with my dad. Namely, with a botched Chinese take away for his 79th anniversary. He got so badly over it he had to go to hospital and had to stay [more…]
Medicine
Ethics
Medicine – Part Ten
At last we reach the end of our little sojourn through the history of medicine. We have come a long way from drilling holes in people’s heads and whipping ourselves to drive off the plague [more…]
20th Century
Medicine – Part Nine
A great deal of medical progress in the 20th Century, you will be unsurprised to hear, was driven by warfare. In 1900 Karl Landsteiner classified blood in to three groups, O, A and B. Alfred von [more…]
19th Century
Medicine – Part Eight
From around the 1750s the process known as the industrial revolution was taking shape. This brought new innovations and technologies, but also brought new challenges. The telegraph and railways expanded communications and transport. Improved production [more…]
Health
Medicine – Part Seven
As we saw previously the foundations for the Renaissance were laid during the Middle Ages. The Renaissance was a process, not an event, so it is hard to pin down exactly when it started. Some [more…]
Health
Medicine – Part Six
The West As mentioned previously, technology and cultures can regress over time as well as progress. The Roman Empire in the west fell, whether quickly or gradually is debateable. What isn’t is that Rome ceased [more…]
Engineering
Medicine – Part Five
Something that many people do not realise is that cultures, technology, science and learning can go backwards as well as forwards. Just as you can have progression, you can also have regression. Although the way [more…]
Engineering
Medicine – Part Four
The Romans were on the rise as an expansionist force from around the 3rd Century BC, and cut a bloody swathe across the Mediterranean. The Ancient Roman Empire, at its height, stretched from Hadrian’s Wall [more…]
Health
Medicine – Part Three
Trigger warning. This post involves intelligent white people doing things. For some background, Ancient Greece does not just cover the modern nation state (lol) of Greece as we know it today. And we are talking [more…]