Nadine Metzger
Biographic Data
| ID | 8939454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Metzger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Metzger |
| SIGNATURE | METZGER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0571-9693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Disease with a History
Hochschulpolitischer Aktivismus in der Wissenschafts‐, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte: Die AG-Mittelbau
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology
Ancient Greek and Latin medical authors considered a flight into solitude a compelling sign of mental disturbance, frequently described as misanthropia, a word fraught with meaning beyond the medical discourse. The fictionalised character Timon of Athens, the quintessential misanthrope, can shed light on ancient cultural concepts of self-imposed isolation from human contact. To cope with the sense of unease this deviant behaviour induced, misanth…
Prächtiges Menschenmaterial“ – Anthropometrische Konstitutionsforschung auf der Suche nach dem statistischen Normalkörper (1914–1922)
Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Arbeit steht das anthropometrische Forschungsprogramm der Konstitutionslehre während des Ersten Weltkrieges und die davon angestoßenen Reihenuntersuchungen der Internisten Theodor Brugsch, Hermann Rautmann und Max Berliner, deren Vorstöße in die Variabilitätsstatistik sowie die anschließende konstitutionspathologische Debatte um die Definition einer körperlichen Norm. Um der Konstitutionslehre eine Datengrundlage für d…
Kynanthropy: Canine madness in Byzantine late antiquity
Those afflicted bark like dogs, scramble on all fours and loiter around graveyards – canine madness, referred to as kynanthropy, was an illness concept in its own right in the medicine of late antiquity. At roughly the same time as the medical description produced by Aëtius of Amida, the Syrian chronicler John of Ephesus, also from Amida, reported an epidemic of dog-like madness sweeping his home town in ad 560. The symptoms are identical and bot…
Battling demons with medical authority: Werewolves, physicians and rationalization
Werewolves and physicians experienced their closest contact in the context of early modern witch and werewolf trials. For medical critics of the trials, melancholic diseases served as reference points for medical explanations of both individual cases and werewolf beliefs in general. This paper attempts to construct a conceptual history of werewolf beliefs and their respective medical responses. After differentiating the relevant terms, pre-modern…
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Battling demons with medical authority: Werewolves, physicians and rationalization
Werewolves and physicians experienced their closest contact in the context of early modern witch and werewolf trials. For medical critics of the trials, melancholic diseases served as reference points for medical explanations of both individual cases and werewolf beliefs in general. This paper attempts to construct a conceptual history of werewolf beliefs and their respective medical responses. After differentiating the relevant terms, pre-modern…
Kynanthropy: Canine madness in Byzantine late antiquity
Those afflicted bark like dogs, scramble on all fours and loiter around graveyards – canine madness, referred to as kynanthropy, was an illness concept in its own right in the medicine of late antiquity. At roughly the same time as the medical description produced by Aëtius of Amida, the Syrian chronicler John of Ephesus, also from Amida, reported an epidemic of dog-like madness sweeping his home town in ad 560. The symptoms are identical and bot…
Prächtiges Menschenmaterial“ – Anthropometrische Konstitutionsforschung auf der Suche nach dem statistischen Normalkörper (1914–1922)
Im Zentrum der vorliegenden Arbeit steht das anthropometrische Forschungsprogramm der Konstitutionslehre während des Ersten Weltkrieges und die davon angestoßenen Reihenuntersuchungen der Internisten Theodor Brugsch, Hermann Rautmann und Max Berliner, deren Vorstöße in die Variabilitätsstatistik sowie die anschließende konstitutionspathologische Debatte um die Definition einer körperlichen Norm. Um der Konstitutionslehre eine Datengrundlage für d…
A mad yearning for solitude: Timon the Misanthrope and his relevance to the study of ancient psychopathology
Ancient Greek and Latin medical authors considered a flight into solitude a compelling sign of mental disturbance, frequently described as misanthropia, a word fraught with meaning beyond the medical discourse. The fictionalised character Timon of Athens, the quintessential misanthrope, can shed light on ancient cultural concepts of self-imposed isolation from human contact. To cope with the sense of unease this deviant behaviour induced, misanth…
Hochschulpolitischer Aktivismus in der Wissenschafts‐, Medizin- und Technikgeschichte: Die AG-Mittelbau
A Disease with a History
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · German Social Sciences and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)