Inaug.-Diss.--Marburg. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-205).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 194-205).

(in English) The current thesis on Nourishment of the czech aristocracy in period before Bílá Hora and contemporary medical literature focuses on two main topics: dining and medicine. Today, both could be included under one label, which is nutrition. The thesis can be divided into two parts. The first one, on the topic of cuisine/dining of noblemen, introduces their diet, habits and provides a few examples of period recipes. The second one presents overview of books that addressed the issue of dining and cuisine at that time. This part also includes personal and literary profiles of several personalities whose writings contributed to this area. A link between these two parts is a chapter on cuisine from the perspective of physicians. In writing the thesis I relied mostly on two sources: literature on lifestyle and historiographic literature. The latter focuses on cuisine from an everyday life perspective without the medical point of view. The objective of the thesis is to show that cuisine, or nutrition is not only a matter of modern age, but it had its place in the examined period as well.

Cette étude s’attache à l’observation et l’analyse des représentations de la peau humaine dans les textes latins des débuts de la littérature romaine (IIème s. av. J.-C.) à l’apogée de l’Empire romain (IIème s. apr. J.-C.). A la suite d’une recherche lexicale et sémantique approfondie sur le vocabulaire explicite de la peau, le thème de la peau est étudié à travers plusieurs champs disciplinaires permettant d’aborder les évocations implicites de la peau, son vocabulaire, ses images et ses significations. L’étude de la physiologie de la peau, appuyée sur l’héritage grec, permet d’en poser une définition chez les Romains, par sa nature, ses fonctions, ses transformations. Peu représentée à l’état normal et sain, la peau est soumise à de multiples violences et maux. L’analyse de la traumatologie de la peau, à travers les poèmes épiques, et de ses pathologies, évoquées dans le Traité de la médecine de Celse, donnent à voir une peau maltraitée, aux blessures fatales, mais d’une importance capitale dans le diagnostic clinique, permettant de jauger la santé – et surtout la maladie – du corps dans son ensemble. Les soins de la peau, thérapeutiques – pour la guérir, chez Celse –, cosmétiques ou commotiques – pour l’entretenir ou la masquer, chez Pline l’Ancien –, s’imposent à la peau, la malmènent eux aussi bien souvent. À côté de cette peau dégradée, coexiste la peau idéale de la poésie amoureuse, à voir et à toucher, entre esthétique et érotique. Enfin, la peau apparaît comme une interface qui transmet à la société romaine des signes selon des critères géographique, sociaux, biographiques, moraux et psychologiques. Elle signale l’appartenance de l’individu à un groupe et définit son identité dans ce groupe. / The aim of this thesis is to observe and analyse representations of human skin in Latin literature from the 2nd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. Starting with a detailed lexical and semantic study of the vocabulary pertaining to the skin, the notion of skin is examined in various fields, allowing us to address implicit allusions to skin along with the associated vocabulary, images and meanings. A physiological approach, based on anatomical knowledge inherited from Greek philosophers, brings us to a definition of normal skin in terms of its nature, functions and changes. Rarely represented in its normal, healthy state, skin is subject to assaults and ill health in various ways. Analysing skin trauma in epic poems and skin pathology, which is referred to in Celsus’ De Medicina, reveals a prevailing representation of damaged and even fatally wounded skin, this being of utmost importance in clinical diagnosis, a means of measuring the health - and particularly illness - of the body as a whole. Therapeutics and cosmetics, in Celsus’ texts, aim to heal whereas in Pliny’s Naturalis Historia, the aim is to care for and mask imperfections. These often cause as much harm to the skin as good. This damaged skin coexists with ideal skin, mainly in elegiac poetry, a skin meant to be seen and touched, from an aesthetical and erotic perspective. Finally, human skin in Roman society acts as an interface, indicating to which social group anindividual may belong as much as one’s identity within that group, according to ethnical, social, biographical, moral and psychological criteria.

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The present study analysed the use of hedges in English medical research articles written by Japanese and American researchers. The study also examined the relationship between Japanese medical professionals' employment of hedges and their writing process. Sixteen English medical articles: eight written by Japanese and eight by Americans were examined. Four of the Japanese authors discussed their writing process through questionnaires and telephone interviews. / The overall ratio of hedges in articles written by the two groups differed only slightly; however, analyses revealed a number of specific differences in the use of hedges between the groups. For example, Japanese researchers used epistemic adverbs and adjectives less frequently than the American researchers. The results were discussed in relation to the problems of nonnative speakers' grammatical competence, cultural differences in rhetorical features, and the amount of experience in the use of medical English.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-81). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996. / Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-163).

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