Thomas Goetz

Set against the backdrop of the tuberculosis epidemic in 1875, this riveting account follows Arthur Conan Doyle, an English doctor and occasional writer, as he tries to expose German doctor Robert Koch's TB 'remedy' as fraud.

Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

The Remedy

Examines the recent advances in preventive medicine, from genomics to early detection, and how they are transforming health care, and advocates a new strategy for thinking about health, one that incorporates cutting-edge technology.

Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine

The Decision Tree

The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called consumption—was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy—a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event. Touring the ward of reportedly cured patients, he was horrified. Koch’s “remedy” was either sloppy science or outright fraud. But to a world desperate for relief, Koch’s remedy wasn’t so easily dismissed. As Europe’s consumptives descended upon Berlin, Koch urgently tried to prove his case. Conan Doyle, meanwhile, returned to England determined to abandon medicine in favor of writing. In particular, he turned to a character inspired by the very scientific methods that Koch had formulated: Sherlock Holmes. Capturing the moment when mystery and magic began to yield to science, The Remedy chronicles the stunning story of how the germ theory of disease became a true fact, how two men of ambition were emboldened to reach for something more, and how scientific discoveries evolve into social truths.

Der Tod, der die Sterbenden endgultig zum Verstummen bringt, bringt dafur meist die Nachlebenden zum Reden. Die Typologie diskursiver Formen des Nachrufs, mit dem die Toten verabschiedet und die Weiterlebenden getrostet werden, ist vielfaltig. Allerdings ist der Totendiskurs je nach Kontext streng geregelt: was uber den Toten zu sagen ist, wie und von wem, ist nicht beliebig, sondern untersteht jeweils expliziten und impliziten Regulierungen. Die Literatur kann unter Berufung auf die Freiheit der Fiktion mit diesen Regeln anders umgehen. Wie die Literatur uber die Toten spricht, steht somit in spezifischer Funktion zum asthetischen Code. Dies wird vor allem in den dramatischen Genres deutlich, die den Tod des Helden in Szene setzen. Dabei erhalt die Totenrede auf die Protagonisten einen dramaturgisch prominenten Ort im ganzen Stuck, fur dessen Sinnkonstitution sie eine entscheidende Rolle spielt.

zur Kultur der Nekrologie und zur Nachrufszene auf dem Theater

Poetik des Nachrufs

For all the talk about personalized medicine, our health care system remains a top-down, doctor-driven system where individuals are too often bit players in their own health decisions. In The Decision Tree, Thomas Goetz proposes a new strategy for thinking about health, one that applies cutting-edge technology to put us at the center of the equation and explains how the new frontier of health care can impact each of our lives.

How to Make Better Choices and Take Control of Your Health

Fritz Oser

Gerit Jaritz

The book focuses on the pains and gains of international mobility in teacher education – its challenges and benefits. The aim is on the one hand to identify some of the challenges which help to explain the low percentage of internationally orientated teacher education students and suggest how to overcome them. On the other hand, major benefits of international mobility in teacher education are presented in the form of competences that can be acquired through studying and teaching abroad. The five chapters of this book refer to reports on practical experiences with international mobility in teacher education at different institutions. The authors outline problems, challenges and advantages, as well as present empirical studies on the international mobility of teachers. The target audience are persons organizing mobility programmes or educators working with international students and researchers in this field. This book aims to contribute to the promotion of international student teacher mobility and to give suggestions on how to implement and optimize such programmes.

Thomas Goetz

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