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Doing Health: Chinese and Other Perspectives. In ancient China, health was related to the individual person and their unique life. Both medical and philosophical texts testify to this: Maintaining vitality in the course of one’s own lifespan was a priority. Daily caring for one’s health revolved around Qi 氣 – a universal medium that is at the same time material and spiritual, emotional and neutral, unitary and diverse, as well as biological, psychological and physiological. Health thus becomes a verb, an act, a property to be preserved, a wavering and oscillating between pleasure and strength. Not least because of the pandemic, the demand for ‘traditional’ healing expertise rose worldwide. Against this background, early Chinese views on life are of unprecedented importance: From their perspective, a reorientation of public and global health policies seems inevitable.
Health in the Presence of the Ancestors: African Healers between Acceptance and Denial: A Case Study from South Africa. Health and well-being for all is the ambitious aim of the third of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN). The no less ambitious definition of health of the World Health Organization (WHO) defines that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. While in biomedical contexts treatment concentrates on physical healing, in the South African context the idea of healing and well-being subsumes a combination of physical, mental and social treatment and includes the ancestors and medicinal plants as an important category in the healing process. The ancestors in particular are representatives of the social past that reaches into the present. Healing as such has a multifaceted dimension even beyond the definition of health as proposed by the WHO.
Health in Judaism: An Intercultural Discourse on Lack of Understanding and Misunderstanding in the Past and Present. Hardly any other religion pays as much attention to physical health as Judaism. Beginning with the Torah, the contrast between „healthy“ and „sick“ is already conceptualized and associated with the will of God and his plan of creation. In addition to the stereotype that Jews are sicker than their fellow human beings, there is an early claim that their state of health is better than that of other peoples. The religious writings of Judaism contain a large number of regulations that show how much the Greco- Roman doctrine of dietetics has been internalized, expanded and adapted to one’s own spiritual needs. There is broad consensus among today’s rabbis that health care, as described above all in the Talmud, was time-related and therefore should be based on today’s standards and findings while remaining in compliance with religious laws.
The Āyurvedic Concept of Health. Āyurveda denominates the most important traditional medical system in South Asia. It looks back on an extensive corpus of literature from the past two thousand years. Since the 1980s, Āyurvedic medical practice has been increasingly spread outside South Asia. One reason for its success might be that Āyurveda places great emphasis on the maintenance of health, prevention, and regeneration. It also developed a broad and differentiated spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic options, which, based on its own systematic paradigm, have been elaborated in detail over millennia. Āyurveda’s canonical texts not only provide systematic descriptions and definitions of the Āyurvedic understanding of health, they also contain detailed treatises regarding their relevance for everyday life and concrete medical instructions. This article provides basic information about the Āyurvedic understanding of health and contextualizes it within the everyday practice of both conventionally and Āyurvedically trained medical doctors in Germany.
Patients’ Perspectives on Health. The following chapter presents a number of patient statements on health and disease provided by several German patient associations. In these statements, patients describe their personal experience with health and disease and how they cope with their situations. Some also emphasize what they have done to improve their wellbeing. These first-hand reports offer a glimpse of the factors that support and inhibit individual people in their everyday struggles to create and maintain their own understanding of health.
The Concept of Health in Immunology and Infection Biology: Nine Opportunities for the Future. Looking at our individual immune systems, one might get the impression that health is mostly a personal matter. However, infection biology immediately points to the fact that health is the outcome of a global joint effort undertaken not only by all humans, but actually by all living beings. From the very large to the very small, health is based on a fragile balance and the successful collaboration of numerous single entities in a highly sensitive and complex network that connects our innermost world with that of the outside. Diseases have been with us forever, and in the course of time, they shaped our political and cultural community. Yet, they also are one of the main drivers of evolutionary development. In that capacity, they have promoted progress from simple life forms to complex beings, i. e., ourselves. Thus, health can also be seen as the product of innumerable tiny coincidences. Politics, academia and society should ensure prevention of future detrimental (or harmful) coincidences with such tragic outcomes.
Taming the European Leviathan: Health as Politics. A Research Project. This article outlines the research project „Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good“. It is funded by a Synergy Grant of the European Research Council and unites European researchers comparing health policies (from drug research to prevention) in West- and East-European countries, e.g., Bulgaria, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. The common goal is to provide a different perspective on post-war Europe, a perspective that emphasizes commonalities rather than differences.
Im „Fünften Gentechnologiebericht“ bieten namhafte Expertinnen und Experten einen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen des dynamischen Forschungsfeldes der Gen- und Biotechnologien und ihrer Anwendungen. In den Bick genommen werden u. a. genetische Diagnostik, somatische Gentherapie, Impfstoffentwicklung, Stammzell- und Organoidforschung, Grüne Gentechnik, Synthetische Biologie, Gene Drives, Genome-Editing, Epigenetik und Einzelzellanalyse. Neben Sachstandsberichten werden auch die gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmung der Gentechnologien sowie ethische und rechtliche Fragen erörtert, u. a. zu Genome-Editing, Hirnorganoiden und Big Data in der personalisierten Medizin. Die interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Gentechnologiebericht gibt außerdem Handlungsempfehlungen zu zentralen Themen. Die Kurzfassung enthält die Einleitung, eine Zusammenfassung der Buchbeiträge und die Handlungsempfehlungen der IAG Gentechnologiebericht.
Im „Fünften Gentechnologiebericht“ bieten namhafte Expertinnen und Experten einen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen des dynamischen Forschungsfeldes der Gen- und Biotechnologien und ihrer Anwendungen. In den Bick genommen werden u. a. genetische Diagnostik, somatische Gentherapie, Impfstoffentwicklung, Stammzell- und Organoidforschung, Grüne Gentechnik, Synthetische Biologie, Gene Drives, Genome-Editing, Epigenetik und Einzelzellanalyse. Neben Sachstandsberichten werden auch die gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmung der Gentechnologien sowie ethische und rechtliche Fragen erörtert, u. a. zu Genome-Editing, Hirnorganoiden und Big Data in der personalisierten Medizin. Die interdisziplinäre Arbeitsgruppe Gentechnologiebericht gibt außerdem Handlungsempfehlungen zu zentralen Themen.
Im Jahr 2021 lädt die Initiative "Forschungsdatenmanagement" alle Mitarbeitenden der BBAW zu einer Veranstaltungsreihe mit dem Titel "Forschungsdatenmanagement kompakt" ein.
Die Präsentationsfolien der ersten Online-Veranstaltung am 11.02.2021 führen in die Grundlagen und Grundbegriffe des Forschungsdatenmanagements ein und stellen die Ziele der Initiative vor.