Abstracts fra Bibliotek for Læger 3/2016

Originalartikel: Sindssyge Grundtvig - Patologi og »text mining«
Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig

Interessekonflikter

 
Insane Grundtvig. Pathology and “text mining”

Bibl Læger 2016;208:224-55.

This article explores the mental condition of the Danish 19th century pastor, politician, author and pedagogical thinker N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872). Grundtvig’s mental health has received a significant amount of attention in scholarly as well as in popular literature clustering around his well-known years of crisis, 1810, 1844, 1853 and 1867. The main trends in this literature is sketched with a special emphasis on psychiatrist Hjalmar Helweg’s classic study from 1918. Moreover, the article aims to test assumptions connected with the posthumous diagnosis on the basis of the newly digitized corpus of Grundtvig’s collected writings and with an apparatus found in the “digital humanities” subgenre “text mining”.

 
Kvartalets genstand
Morten A. Skydsgaard


 
Originalartikel: Om årsager
Jørn Olsen
Interessekonflikter
On causation

Bibl Læger 2016;208:258-66.

 Causation is a key concept in disease prevention and treatment, and we act on associations when we think they reflect causation. Mackie’s component causal model has played an important role in epidemiology, especially as explained in Rothman’s reinvention and re-interpretation. The model provides an attempt to understand why our studies on causes often show delayed effects with a probabilistic outcome, even if causation is deterministic. It also explains why we see latency and induction time and is shows us how causes can interact.

 

 
Interview: Studier i rødt

- En samtale om menstruationsmyter med bogaktuelle Maja Nyvang Christensen og Sine Cecilie Laub
Christian Graugaard

 
Originalartikel: Engelsk sved på kontinentet - Demografiske konsekvenser den engelske svedesyge på det europæiske kontinent i 1529
John Christiansen
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English sweat on the continent. Demographic consequences of the English sweating disease on the European continent in 1529

Bibl Læger 2016;208;275-93.

The epidemic of the English sweating sickness on the European continent in 1529 has not previously been subject to demographic studies. The aim of this study is to examine the course and demographic effects of the epidemic based on archival material and a critical analysis of the literary sources. Firm conclusions are difficult to draw due to limited archival data, but certain features stand out. The continental epidemic caused great anxiety, but based on the existing documents, these fears seem only to have been be well founded in limited areas, e.g. in Lübeck and Köln. Nonetheless, the epidemic gave rise to a large number of publications and pamphlets – far more than those regarding the reoccurring epidemics in England. This study supports earlier German studies indicating that the spread took place along the medieval trade routes, which explains why it was not necessarily geographically continuous, as the disease often reached the large trade centres earlier than towns and places closer to its starting point. The epidemic reached Scandinavia, but sources are scarce and no demographic data exist. The only data on mortality of the disease in Denmark is that 400-500 Copenhageners died. This seems to originate from a misinterpretation of the “Roskilde Yearbook”, which is a purely narrative source. In all probability, the data refers to Antwerp and not Copenhagen. The two important events often ascribed to the sweat epidemic (the end of the siege of Vienna and the cancellation of the colloquy between Luther and Zwingli in Marburg) cannot be verified by contemporary sources.

 

 
Et billede fra min hverdag
Morten Falshøj Pedersen

 

 
Tale: Hurra med stolthed og vemod

- Tale ved de nye Aalborglægers dimission den 29. juni 2016
Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen

 

 
Tale: Historie, fællesskab og pligter

- Tale ved de nye Aalborglægers dimission den 29. juni 2016
Andreas Rudkjøbing