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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563174203321

Autore

Prokop Ursula

Titolo

Architekten- und Designer-Ehepaar Jacques und Jacqueline Groag [[electronic resource] ] : Zwei vergessene Künstler der Wiener Moderne / / Ursula Prokop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Böhlau, 2005

Wein : , : Böhlau, , 2005

ISBN

9783205773009 (ebook)

3205773004 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations

Soggetti

Architecture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This manuscript is based on the results of a research project (No. 7726), carried out at the Institute for the History of Art (University of Vienna) under the direction of Professor Dr. Peter Haiko, and sponsored by the Jubilee Funds of the Austrian National Bank.

The artists Jacques Groag (b. Olomouc, February 5, 1892, d. London, January 26, 1962) and his wife Jacqueline (née Hilde Blumberger, b.Prague, April 6, 1903, d. London, January 13, 1986) belong to those representatives of the Viennese Modernists between the two World Wars who are now forgotten, due to the fact that, being Jews, they were forced to emigrate in 1938.

In the early phase of his career Jacques Groag worked as an assistant and executing architect for Adolf Loos (Moller house, 1927) and Ludwig Wittgenstein (Wittgenstein house, 1928) and co-operated with the interior designers Friedl Dicker and Franz Singer (Heller tennis club house, 1928). After that, in independent practice he realized a considerable number of remarkable architectural projects in Vienna and native Moravia (now Czech Republic), among others a pair of semi-



detached houses at the Werkbundsiedlung, a house for the actress Paula Wessely, a country house for the industrialist Otto Eisler, several houses for other private clients, but also industrial buildings. At this time he was regarded as one of the most important followers of Adolf Loos. He also enjoyed remarkable success as a designer of interiors, and was befriended to many Viennese artists such as the painters Sergius Pauser and Josef Dobrowsky, the sculptor Georg Ehrlich and the photographer Trude Fleischmann. His wife Jacqueline, a student of Franz Cizek and Josef Hoffmann at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, between the wars was active as a designer of textiles for the Wiener Werkstätte and for fashion houses in Paris. After the couple's emigration to England in 1939 Jacques Groag could only find commissions as a designer of interiors and furniture, but found no opportunity to realize architectural projects. As a team, Jacques and Jacqueline made important contributions to prominent exhibitions on British design in the post-war period. Jacqueline, who outlived her husband for more than twenty years, continued her career as a successful textile designer until her late age.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484749603321

Titolo

Classification, Disease and Evidence : New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine / / edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

94-017-8887-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Collana

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, , 2211-1956 ; ; 7

Disciplina

610.1

Soggetti

Biology - Philosophy

Bioethics

Medicine - History

Philosophy of Biology

History of Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Evolutionary Models of Virulence: Concepts, History and Current Applications; Alizon, Sam and Méthot, Pierre Olivier.-Objectivity, Scientificity and the Dualist Epistemology of Medicine; Cunningham; Thomas -- The Function Debate and the Concept of Mental Disorder; Steeves, Demazeux -- Defining genetic disease; Dekeuwer; Catherine -- Causal and probabilistic inferences in diagnostic reasoning: casting a historical light onto the current debates; Coste, Joël -- Risk factor and causality in epidemiology; Giroux, Elodie -- The naturalization of the concept of disease; Lemoine, Mael -- The Epistemology of Mental Illness; Dominic Murphy -- Power, Knowledge and Laughter: Forensic Psychiatry and the misuse of the DSM; Singy, Patrick -- Quality Assessment Tools for Evidence in Medicine; Stegenga, Jacob.

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? (d) How do we assess and choose cure/ therapy?   The book is divided into three sections:  classification, disease, and evidence. In general, attention is focused on statistics in medicine and epidemiology, issues in psychiatry, and connecting medicine with evolutionary biology and genetics. Many authors position the theories that they address within their historical contexts.   The nature of health and disease will be addressed in several essays that also touch upon very general questions about the definition of medicine and its status.  Several chapters scrutinize classification because of its centrality within philosophical problems raised by medicine and its core position in the philosophical questioning of psychiatry. Specificities of medical explanation have recently come under a new light, particularly because of the rise of statistical methods, and several chapters investigate these methods in specific contexts such as epidemiology or meta-analysis of random testing. Taken together this collection addresses the question of how we gather, use and assess evidence for various medical theories.   The rich assortment of disciplines featured also includes epidemiology, parasitology, and public health, while technical aspects such as the application of game theory to medical research and the misuse of the DSM in forensic psychiatry are also given an airing. The book addresses more than the construction of medical knowledge, however, adding cogent appraisal of the processes of decision making in medicine and the protocols used to justify therapeutic choices.