M. Schmid – författare

Chromosomes Today volume 14 records the plenary proceedings of the 14th International Chromosome Conference, presenting an overview of the current concerns in plant, animal and human cytogenetics. This volume provides up-to-date information regarding relevant aspects on structure, function and evolution of chromosomes, meiosis, sex chromosomes, and cancer cytogenetics. It contains invited contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field. The latest volume in this well-established series will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students and researchers in biological sciences, genetics and medicine.

Was ich in der Schrift von Dr. SCHMID besonders schätze, ist die darin vertretene ganzheitliche Auffassung der Medizin. Der Verfasser zeigt am Beispiel der chronischen Hepatitis, daß man nur dann einen Gesamt­ überblick über diese Krankheit zu gewinnen vermag, wenn man Klinik, Biochemie, Morphologie und Immunologie - um nur diese Disziplinen zu nennen - miteinander verbindet, während eine fragmentarische Be­ urteilung der Krankheit den Kliniker, Histopathologen und manchmal auch den Immunologen irreführt. Wenn wir diese Monographie lesen, sehen wir uns von der rein klinischen Auffassung der Krankheiten, wie sie vor einem halben Jahrhundert noch allgemein gültig war, weit ent­ fernt, in einer Zeit, in der jeder Kliniker von Ruf glaubte, einen meist abschätzenden Artikel mit dem Titel "Medizin und Laboratorium" schrei­ ben zu müssen . . . Durch seine berufliche Ausbildung war Dr. SCHMID gleichsam dazu bestimmt, sich zum Verfechter einer solchen Gesamtschau der Medizin zu machen, hat er doch den großen Vorzug, zugleich ein erfahrener Internist und ein kundiger Pathologe zu sein. Es war höchste Zeit, auf dem weiten Gebiet der chronischen Hepatitis Ordnung zu schaffen und neue Wege zu bahnen, deren Ziel unter anderem die Trennung der gutartigen Formen dieses Leidens von den bösartigen ist, welche sich so oft zur post-hepatitischen Cirrhose weiterentwickeln. Diese Arbeit konnte indessen nur durchgeführt werden, indem der Ver­ fasser zahlreiche Patienten monate-oder jahrelang persönlich beobachtete, während er zur Lösung des Problems die verschiedenartigsten Forschungs­ methoden anwandte.

Was ich in der Schrift von Dr. SCHMID besonders schätze, ist die darin vertretene ganzheitliche Auffassung der Medizin. Der Verfasser zeigt am Beispiel der chronischen Hepatitis, daß man nur dann einen Gesamt­ überblick über diese Krankheit zu gewinnen vermag, wenn man Klinik, Biochemie, Morphologie und Immunologie - um nur diese Disziplinen zu nennen - miteinander verbindet, während eine fragmentarische Be­ urteilung der Krankheit den Kliniker, Histopathologen und manchmal auch den Immunologen irreführt. Wenn wir diese Monographie lesen, sehen wir uns von der rein klinischen Auffassung der Krankheiten, wie sie vor einem halben Jahrhundert noch allgemein gültig war, weit ent­ fernt, in einer Zeit, in der jeder Kliniker von Ruf glaubte, einen meist abschätzenden Artikel mit dem Titel "Medizin und Laboratorium" schrei­ ben zu müssen . . . Durch seine berufliche Ausbildung war Dr. SCHMID gleichsam dazu bestimmt, sich zum Verfechter einer solchen Gesamtschau der Medizin zu machen, hat er doch den großen Vorzug, zugleich ein erfahrener Internist und ein kundiger Pathologe zu sein. Es war höchste Zeit, auf dem weiten Gebiet der chronischen Hepatitis Ordnung zu schaffen und neue Wege zu bahnen, deren Ziel unter anderem die Trennung der gutartigen Formen dieses Leidens von den bösartigen ist, welche sich so oft zur post-hepatitischen Cirrhose weiterentwickeln. Diese Arbeit konnte indessen nur durchgeführt werden, indem der Ver­ fasser zahlreiche Patienten monate-oder jahrelang persönlich beobachtete, während er zur Lösung des Problems die verschiedenartigsten Forschungs­ methoden anwandte.

In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The 'discovery of time' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer's vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

Chromosomes Today volume 14 records the plenary proceedings of the 14th International Chromosome Conference, presenting an overview of the current concerns in plant, animal and human cytogenetics. This volume provides up-to-date information regarding relevant aspects on structure, function and evolution of chromosomes, meiosis, sex chromosomes, and cancer cytogenetics. It contains invited contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field.

In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The ''discovery of time'' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer''s vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive'' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

In retrospect the 19th century tmdoubtedly seems to be the century of evolutionism. The 'discovery of time' and therewith the experience of variability was made by many sciences: not only historians worked on the elaboration and interpretation of this discovery, but also physicists, geographers, biologists and economists, demographers, archaelogists, and even philosophers. The successful empirical fotmdation of evolutive processes by Darwin and his disciples suggested Herbert Spencer's vigorously pursued efforts in searching for an extensive' catalogue of prime and deduced evolutionary principles that would allow to integrate the most different disciplines of natural and social sciences as well as the efforts of philosophers of ethics and epistemologists. Soon it became evident, however, that the claim for integration anticipated by far the actual results of these different disciplines. Darwin I s theory suffered from the fact that in the beginning a hereditary factor which could have his theory could not be detected, while the gainings of grotmd supported in the social sciences got lost in consequence of the completely ahistorical or biologistic speculations of some representatives of the evolutionary research programm and common socialdarwinistic misinterpretations.

Chromosomes Today volume 14 records the plenary proceedings of the 14th International Chromosome Conference, presenting an overview of the current concerns in plant, animal and human cytogenetics. This volume provides up-to-date information regarding relevant aspects on structure, function and evolution of chromosomes, meiosis, sex chromosomes, and cancer cytogenetics. It contains invited contributions from some of the world''s leading experts in the field.