Der Kampf mit den Autoritäten – Cornelis Bontekoe (1647–1685) und Steven Blankaart (1650–1702) als Gegner der etablierten Medizin. Schwerpunkt: Alternative und komplementäre Heilmethoden in der Neuzeit Konzepte sexueller Gesundheit vom Mittelalter bis zum 21. Jahrhundert

Cornelis Bontekoe and Steven Blankaart belonged to a new generation of physicians in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Using the theories of Cartesianism, they consciously developed a critical attitude towards the authorities of the past. Primarily, it was their ambition to present medical science in a completely new way and to make it accessible to all people, including the interested layman. With that, an innovative vision on the human body and its functions was born. The organism becomes a machine whose life is determined by the activity of the cardiac muscle and great blood circu... Mehr ...