Tag: Fall 2016
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My son getting an MRI
Bonnie SalomonLake Forest, Illinois, USA I sit in the hallway with old magazinesfrom last winter, listening to the buzzand chirp of the enormous magnetattracting and spinning his hydrogenprotons that were once part of me,ageless interstellar dust, the remainsof stars and galaxies that have cometo rest in his body, flat on the examtable. I can do…
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How to live like this
Tom Janisse Portland, Oregon, USA Tom’s father’s painting of the Nova Scotia shore near his mother’s birthplace. Courtesy of Tom Janisse How to live like this “This is no way to live, Tom,” my father, Emile, said. I didn’t hear him say he was choosing to die, ready now, wanting to go, because I…
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Philosophy of science and medicine series – VI: Islamic science
Philip LiebsonChicago, Illinois, United States The new science of the twelfth century was Arab in form but founded by the ancient Greeks. The Arabs preserved and transmitted a large body of Greek learning, and what content they added was perhaps less important than their change to the concept of why science ought to be studied.…
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Giulio Casserio’s anatomical atlas
Anna LantzStockholm, Sweden Giulio Casserio (c. 1552–1616) was an Italian anatomist active in Padua around the year 1600. He published several anatomical works, the finest being the Tabulae anatomicae LXXIIXX. This remained unknown until the German doctor Daniel Rindfleisch (aka Bucretius) had it printed posthumously in 1627 along with his own annotations. The beautiful illustrations…