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31Jakó Zsigmond , Koleseri Samuel tudomanyos levelezese 1709-1732Journal of Early Modern Studies 4 (1): 127-128. 2015.
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16Effort Worth Making: A Qualitative Study of How Swedes Respond to Antibiotic ResistancePublic Health Ethics 14 (1): 1-11. 2021.Due to the alarming rise of antibiotic resistance, medically unwarranted use of antibiotics has assumed new moral significance. In this paper, a thematic content analysis of focus group discussions was conducted to explore lay people’s views on the moral challenges posed by antibiotic resistance. The most important finding is that lay people are morally sensitive to the problems entailed by antibiotic resistance. Participants saw the decreasing availability of effective antibiotics as a problem …Read more
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10Review essay of Infinite Mobilization, by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Sandra Berjan, Cambridge, Polity, 2020, 240 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 978-1-509-51847-0.
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Appetites, Matter and Metaphors: Aristotle, Physics I, 9 , and Its Renaissance CommentatorsIn G. Giglioni, J. A. T. Lancaster, S. Corneanu & Dana Jalobeanu (eds.), Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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45John Abernethy: Calvinist Natural Histories of the Soul in the Seventeenth CenturyEarly Science and Medicine 17 (1): 254-271. 2012.This paper looks at the relation of natural history, in its guise as an observational genre and one which tended to offer competing explanations of its phenomena, to the discourse of practical divinity. Natural history is here intended as a genre in which the practice of observation is accorded a significant place and a genre which lends itself to the accumulation of competing explanatory accounts of the phenomena. In particular, it examines the relation of the cognitive and the practical with r…Read more
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5On Borrowed Time: Internationalism and its Discontents in a Late Sixteenth-Century University LibraryJournal of Early Modern Studies 1 (1): 9-19. 2012.An analysis of the accession history, together with a few refinements thereto, of the Báthory Jesuit College in Transylvania tells us much about the internationaland local buying practices of a humanistic reading community in a period of confessional strife. This short article makes a few corrections to our current knowledge of this library, together with a few obiter comments on Transylvanian book pricing and on the second-hand usage of student works. The Republic ofLetters depended, naturally …Read more
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Juan Luis Vives (1492/93-1540) : A pious eclecticIn Paul Richard Blum (ed.), Philosophers of the Renaissance, Catholic University of America Press. 2010.
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1Marc-antoine Muret's Moral Philosophy: The Renaissance Contest Of The Disciplines?Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Et Renaissance 64 (3): 669-678. 2002.