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  1. Etiological Explanations: Illness Causation Theory.Olaf Dammann - 2020 - Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
    Theory of illness causation is an important issue in all biomedical sciences, and solid etiological explanations are needed in order to develop therapeutic approaches in medicine and preventive interventions in public health. Until now, the literature about the theoretical underpinnings of illness causation research has been scarce and fragmented, and lacking a convenient summary. This interdisciplinary book provides a convenient and accessible distillation of the current status of research into this developing field, and adds a personal flavor to the discussion (...)
  2. Hill's Heuristics and Explanatory Coherentism in Epidemiology.Olaf Dammann - 2018 - American Journal of Epidemiology 187 (1):1-6.
    In this essay, I argue that Ted Poston's theory of explanatory coherentism is well-suited as a tool for causal explanation in the health sciences, particularly in epidemiology. Coherence has not only played a role in epidemiology for more than half a century as one of Hill's viewpoints, it can also provide background theory for the development of explanatory systems by integrating epidemiologic evidence with a diversity of other error-independent data. I propose that computational formalization of Hill's viewpoints in an explanatory (...)
     
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    The Etiological Stance: Explaining Illness Occurrence.Olaf Dammann - 2017 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 60 (2):151-165.
    Models of illness causation play a crucial role in medicine and public health. In their recent paper on this topic, Michael Kelly, Rachel Kelly, and Federica Russo state that the integration of social, biological, and behavioral causes in one and the same etiologic mechanism remains to be clarified. In particular, they think that current models of illness causation do not appreciate "the truly integrated nature of bio-social-behavioral pathogenesis". In brief, Kelly, Kelly, and Russo suggest that two levels of explanation are (...)
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    VIII*—Metaphors and Other Things.R. M. J. Dammann - 1978 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 78 (1):125-140.
    R. M. J. Dammann; VIII*—Metaphors and Other Things, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 78, Issue 1, 1 June 1978, Pages 125–140, https://doi.org/10.
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  5. How do medical researchers make causal inferences?Olaf Dammann, Ted Poston & Paul Thagard - 2019 - In Kevin McCain, What is Scientific Knowledge?: An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science. New York: Routledge.
    Bradford Hill (1965) highlighted nine aspects of the complex evidential situation a medical researcher faces when determining whether a causal relation exists between a disease and various conditions associated with it. These aspects are widely cited in the literature on epidemiological inference as justifying an inference to a causal claim, but the epistemological basis of the Hill aspects is not understood. We offer an explanatory coherentist interpretation, explicated by Thagard's ECHO model of explanatory coherence. The ECHO model captures the complexity (...)
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  6. Perinatal Brain Damage Causation.Olaf Dammann - 2007 - Developmental Neuroscience 29:280–8.
    The search for causes of perinatal brain damage needs a solid theoretical foundation. Current theory apparently does not offer a unanimously accepted view of what constitutes a cause, and how it can be identified. We discuss nine potential theoretical misconceptions: (1) too narrow a view of what is a cause (causal production vs. facilitation), (2) extrapolating from possibility to fact (potential vs. factual causation), (3) if X, then invariably Y (determinism vs. probabilism), (4) co-occurrence in individuals vs. association in populations, (...)
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    On the Moral Psychology and Normative Force of Aesthetic Reasons.Guy Dammann & Elisabeth Schellekens - 2020 - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 54 (1):20.
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  8. Risk, predictability and biomedical neo-pragmatism.Olaf Dammann - 2009 - Acta Paediatrica 98:1093–5.
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  9. Explanation in Public Health.Olaf Dammann - 2018 - In Sridhar Venkatapuram & Alex Broadbent, Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Public Health. Routledge.
    In this chapter, I first outline the public health workflow from assessment via goal definition and intervention to evaluation. Further, I discuss the types and subtypes of explanation used in public health research and practice: scientific, justificatory, methodological, and prospective. In doing this, I take the discussion far beyond the usual focus in philosophy of science as answers to “why?”-questions. The chapter ends with a few comments on my proposal.
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  10. Evidence Mapping to Justify Health Interventions.Olaf Dammann - 2021 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 64 (2):155-172.
    In order to support health interventions, biomedical and population health researchers need to collect solid evidence. This article asks what type of evidence this should be and expands on previous work that focused on etiological explanations, or causal-mechanical explanations of why and how illness occurs. The article proposes adding predictive evidence to the explanatory evidence, in order to form a joint evidence set, or JES = [A,B,C,D], which consists of four different types of evidence: association [A], biology [B], confirmation [C], (...)
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  11. Health Humanities in Medicina: The Auxiliary Stance.Olaf Dammann, Eugenijus Gefenas & Signe Mezinska - 2022 - Medicina 58 (3):411.
    At the core of medicine is the idea to help fellow human beings by improving or even restoring their health. Let us call this the auxiliary stance of medicine—the motivation of medical intervention by reference to a moral obligation to guide our peers in their attempt to live a healthy and productive life. In parallel, the auxiliary stance is also central to public health, with a focus on prevention and health promotion. Taken together, we can view medicine and public health (...)
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    Causation in Population Health Informatics and Data Science.Olaf Dammann & Benjamin Smart - 2018 - New York, NY, USA: Springer Verlag.
    This book covers the overlap between informatics, computer science, philosophy of causation, and causal inference in epidemiology and population health research. Key concepts covered include how data are generated and interpreted, and how and why concepts in health informatics and the philosophy of science should be integrated in a systems-thinking approach. Furthermore, a formal epistemology for the health sciences and public health is suggested. -/- Causation in Population Health Informatics and Data Science provides a detailed guide of the latest thinking (...)
  13. Agent-Based Models as Etio-Prognostic Explanations.Olaf Dammann - 2021 - Argumenta 7 (1):19-38.
    Agent-based models (ABMs) are one type of simulation model used in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In contrast to equation-based models, ABMs are algorithms that use individual agents and attribute changing characteristics to each one, multiple times during multiple iterations over time. This paper focuses on three philosophical aspects of ABMs as models of causal mechanisms, as generators of emergent phenomena, and as providers of explanation. Based on my discussion, I conclude that while ABMs cannot help much with causal (...)
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  14. Trying Things Out - A Flusserian Vision for the Future of Science.Olaf Dammann - 2021 - Flusser Studies 32 (32).
    My goal in this paper is twofold. First, I want to analyze two early texts by Vilém Flusser in order to explore what may have been his conceptualization of the relationship between science and philosophy. My analysis suggests that Flusser thought of both as tools to analyze reality by analyzing language. While he saw science as a (sometimes too vigorous) force forward, he viewed philosophy as what can prevent some of the negative consequences of such progress. In direct comparison, Flusser (...)
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  15. Probieren - Verfahren, Zwiespalt, Schweigen und Hoffnung in der Wissenschaft.Olaf Dammann - manuscript
    Dieser Aufsatz beschreibt und erörtert fünf Aspekte der gegenwärtigen Wissenschaft: Verfahren, Zwiespalt, Schweigen, Hoffnung, und Probieren.
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  16. What Do We Understand In Musical Experience?Guy Dammann - 2005 - Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 2 (2):70-75.
    Of the many difficult questions that populate the rather treacherous terrain of the philosophy of music, the one that perplexes and interests me the most often crops up in various guises in the myriad books of‘ Quotations for music lovers’ and such like. The following version may be said to capture its fundamental idea. Given that music doesn’t seem in any obvious sense to be about anything precisely, why do we seem to think that it conveys so much so strongly?
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    Absolute Programme Music.Dammann Guy - 2017 - British Journal of Aesthetics 57 (1):71-75.
    Mark Evan Bonds’ recent book, Absolute Music, deepens considerably the historical context within which Eduard Hanslick’s famous treatise on musical beauty can be read. This paper argues that, with the aid of this expanded context, we can understand Hanslick’s treatise to have provided contemporary and subsequent audiences with a kind of meta-programme for listening to symphonic and other non-texted music. That is to say, Hanslick’s text arguably informed and directed the way audiences came to listen to instrumental music by furnishing (...)
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    Causality, mosaics, and the health sciences.Olaf Dammann - 2016 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 37 (2):161-168.
    Thinking about illness causation has a long and rich history in medicine. After a hiatus in the 1990s, the last one-and-a-half decades have seen a surge of publications on causality in the biomedical sciences. Interestingly, this surge is visible not only in the medical, epidemiological, bioinformatics, and public health literatures, but also among philosophical publications. In this essay, I review and discuss one most recent addition to the literature, "Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice" written by philosophers Phyllis Illari and (...)
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    The Essence of Authenticity.Olaf Dammann, Katja M. Friederichs, Sabine Lebedinski & Kerstin M. Liesenfeld - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
    In this paper, we build upon the model of authenticity proposed by Lehman and colleagues, which includes the dimensions consistency, conformity, and connection. We expand this “3C-view” by adding a fourth dimension, continuity, which results in what we have come to call “4C-view of authenticity.” We discuss our proposal from a process perspective and emphasize that congruence might be a reasonable candidate for a concept that unifies the four dimensions of authenticity.
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    Epidemiological ExplanationsAlex Broadbent, Philosophy of Epidemiology. London: Macmillan , 228 pp., $95.00.Olaf Dammann - 2015 - Philosophy of Science 82 (3):509-519.
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    Editor’s Note.Olaf Dammann - 2025 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 68 (1):1-2.
    When Martha Montello took over as the Editor of Perspectives in 2014, she noted that the Journal had “flourished for 58 years because of its unique vision and mission and the ability of its remarkable editors to stay focused on that mission,” referring to the work of her predecessors, D. J. Ingle, Richard Landau, and Robert Perlman. Now we can add 10 more years to this fantastic track record of editorial excellence and count Martha herself among those to be credited (...)
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  22. Neonatal sepsis as a cause of retinopathy of prematurity: An etiological explanation.Olaf Dammann & Brian Stansfield - 2023 - Progress in Retina and Eye Research 98 (101230).
    Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a complex neonatal disorder with multiple contributing factors. In this paper we have mounted the evidence in support of the proposal that neonatal sepsis meets all requirements for being a cause of ROP (not a condition, mechanism, or even innocent bystander) by means of initiating the early stages of the pathomechanism of ROP occurrence, systemic inflammation. We use the model of etiological explanation, which distinguishes between two overlapping processes in ROP causation. It can be shown (...)
     
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    Duration of antecedent discriminative stimuli and within-subject reward magnitude differences as determiners of running speed.Carrell A. Dammann & Charles C. Perkins - 1969 - Journal of Experimental Psychology 82 (3):554.
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    (1 other version)Emotion And Fiction.R. M. J. Dammann - 1991 - British Journal of Aesthetics 31 (4):13-20.
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    Facial Affective Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder Indicating Two Different Clusters and Their Influence on Inpatient Treatment Outcome: A Preliminary Study.Gerhard Dammann, Myriam Rudaz, Cord Benecke, Anke Riemenschneider, Marc Walter, Monique C. Pfaltz, Joachim Küchenhoff, John F. Clarkin & Daniela J. Gremaud-Heitz - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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    Human rights against collective and organized violence: observed by Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory.Klaus Dammann - 2012 - Revista Filosófica de Coimbra 21 (41):247-263.
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    IX. Der Anfang des peloponnesischen Krieges.Α Dammann - 1899 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 58 (1-4):132-147.
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    Opera and the Limits of Philosophy: on Bernard Williams's Music Criticism: Articles.Guy Dammann - 2010 - British Journal of Aesthetics 50 (4):469-479.
    This paper provides a reading of the opera criticism of Bernard Williams in the light of his philosophical writings. Beginning with the observations that his philosophical writing lacks engagement with musical and aesthetic issues, and his operatic writing appears to present no particular philosophy of the subject, I try to draw together certain themes by mapping Williams's operatic concerns onto his philosophical project more generally. I argue that the 'excessive' nature of the artform—the idea that opera tends to exceed its (...)
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  29. «Sonate, que me veux-tu?»: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Problem of Instrumental Music.Guy Dammann - 2004 - Ad Parnassum 3 (5):57-67.
     
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  30. The morality of musical imitation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau.Guy Dammann - 2005 - Dissertation, King's College London
    The thesis analyses the relation between Rousseau’s musical writings and elements of his moral, social and linguistic philosophy. In particular, I am concerned to demonstrate: (i.) how the core of Rousseau’s theory of musical imitation is grounded in the same analysis of the nature of man which governs his moral and social philosophy; (ii.) how this grounding does not extend to the stylistic prescriptions the justification of which Rousseau intended his musical writings to offer. The central argument draws on Rousseau’s (...)
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    Music, Philosophy, and Modernity.G. Dammann - 2008 - British Journal of Aesthetics 48 (4):459-461.
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    The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology.Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann & Peter Goldie (eds.) - 2011 - Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press.
    The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art.
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    Aesthetic Understanding and Epistemic Agency in Art.Elisabeth Schellekens & Guy Dammann - 2021 - Disputatio 13 (62):265-282.
    Recently, cognitivist accounts about art have come under pressure to provide stronger arguments for the view that artworks can yield genuine insight and understanding. In Gregory Currie’s Imagining and Knowing: Learning from Fiction, for example, a convincing case is laid out to the effect that any knowledge gained from engaging with art must “be judged by the very standards that are used in assessing the claim of science to do the same” (Currie 2020: 8) if indeed it is to count (...)
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    Evidence, illness, and causation: An epidemiological perspective on the Russo–Williamson Thesis.Alexander R. Fiorentino & Olaf Dammann - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 54:1-9.
    According to the Russo-Williamson Thesis, causal claims in the health sciences need to be supported by both difference-making and mechanistic evidence. In this article, we attempt to determine whether Evidence-based Medicine can be improved through the consideration of mechanistic evidence. We discuss the practical composition and function of each RWT evidence type and propose that exposure-outcome evidence provides associations that can be explained through a hypothesis of causation, while mechanistic evidence provides finer-grained associations and knowledge of entities that ultimately explains (...)
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    Angelina Pollak-Eltz: Afro-Amerikaanse godsdiensten en culten . Verlag J. J. Romen & Zonen, Roermond 1970, 221 S. und 30 Abbildungen. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1971 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 23 (1-2):162-163.
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    G. C.Oosthuizen, Shepherd of Lovedale. Johannesburg 1970, VII. 247 pp. 247 pp. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1972 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 24 (2):181-182.
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    Hans-Jürgen Greschat: Westafrikanische Propheten. Morphologie einer religiösen Spezialisierung. Marburger Studien zur Afrika- und Asienkunde. Serie A: Afrika, Band 4. Marburg 1974, 113 pp. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 27 (4):362-363.
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    J. B. Dauquah: The Akan Doctrine of God. A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion. Second Edition. With a New Introduction by Kwesi A. Dickson and Nine Illustrations by Kofi Antubam. Frank Cass and Co., London 1968, XXXVIII, 206 pp. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1971 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 23 (4):377-378.
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    John S. Mbiti: Afrikanische Religion und Weltanschauung , W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1974, 375 pp. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 27 (4):361-362.
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    Marcel Griaule: Schwarze Genesis. Ein afrikanischer Schöpfungsbericht. Aus dem Französischen von Janheinz Jahn, Herder, Freiburg 1970, 208 pp. [REVIEW]Ernst Dammann - 1972 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 24 (4):363-364.
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  41. Respect, Responsibility and Ruins.Jeremy Page & Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann - 2019 - In Jeanette Bicknell, Carolyn Korsmeyer & Jennifer Judkins, Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials. New York: Routledge. pp. ch.20.
    A person can appropriately manifest respect toward a world heritage ruin by developing a sensitive understanding of the ruin’s cultural and historical context and significance. In this paper, we link such respectful understanding to the question of the aesthetic appreciation of world heritage ruins. Our claim is that an aesthetic appreciation of a world heritage ruin qua world heritage ruin typically involves two things: first, the responsibility not to neglect the individuality of the object, and, second, a commitment to the (...)
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    The Epistemological Weight of Randomized-Controlled Trials Depends on Their Results.Ryan F. Flanagan & Olaf Dammann - 2018 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61 (2):157-173.
    Biomedical research and study design have recently been examined in detail by philosophers of science, who, like biomedical researchers, are concerned with the ability to accurately represent causal relationships through scientific study and apply these relationships to improve the health of individuals and populations. Epistemology—defined by the OED as "the theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justified belief and opinion"—is fundamental to these concerns. In particular, philosophers of science and biomedical (...)
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    Biologic Correlates and Consequences of the Social Determinants of Health and Disease.Alan Leviton, Olaf Dammann, Anup D. Patel & Tobias Loddenkemper - 2024 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 67 (3):305-324.
    The consequences of experiences and exposures suffered by those living in poverty can last a lifetime and can even be passed on to the next generation. The challenges associated with poverty have been labeled the "social determinants of health" (SDoH), but this is something of a misnomer. A more appropriate label would be the "social determinants of disease." This essay is a broad overview of the processes, including allostatic load and epigenetic aging, that might contribute to prolonging the adverse effects (...)
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    The Perfect Storm: Preterm Birth, Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms, and Autism Causation.Carmina Erdei & Olaf Dammann - 2014 - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 57 (4):470-481.
    Explaining the causal mechanisms that contribute to autism spectrum disorder occurrence remains a conundrum in developmental medicine, neuroscience, and child psychiatry. Recent research has resulted in agreement on behavioral definitions and their underlying cognitive processes, early diagnosis and standardized assessments, evidence-based interventions, systems-level approaches to neurobiology, and identification of genetic variants and their interaction with epigenetic and environmental factors. However, an explanatory model of autism causation remains elusive.Perhaps..
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  45. The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's Aesthetics.S. Davies, R. Hopkins, J. Robinson & G. Dammann - 2004 - British Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3):313-315.
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    Religionswissenschaft.Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, Heinz Jürgen Loth, Adelheid Herrmann & Ernst Dammann - 1979 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 31 (1-4):403-415.
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    Religionswissenschaft.Ulrich Mann, Heinz-Jürgen Loth, Hans-Joachim Schoeps & Ernst Dammann - 1975 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 27 (1-4):360-365.
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    Ernst Dammann: Grundriß der Religionsgeschichte, Band 17 in Theologische Wissenschaft - Sammelwerk für Studium und Beruf. Verlag W. Kohlhammer Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln, Mainz 1972, 127 pp. [REVIEW]Niels Peter Moritzen - 1973 - Zeitschrift für Religions- Und Geistesgeschichte 25 (1):77-77.
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  49. E. DAMMANN, "Die Religionen Afrikas". [REVIEW]Karlo Oedingen - 1963 - Revue Internationale de Philosophie 17 (3):395.
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    Katrin Luchsinger, Gerhard Dammann, Monika Jagfeld, André Salathé (Hrsgg.), Auf der Seeseite der Kunst. Werke aus der Psychiatrischen Klinik Münsterlingen, 1894–1960, Zürich: Chronos 2015. 160 S., 112 Abb., € 29,00. ISBN 978‐3‐0340‐1262‐1. Katrin Luchsinger, Die Vergessenskurve. Werke aus psychiatrischen Kliniken in der Schweiz um 1900. Eine kulturanalytische Studie , Zürich: Chronos 2016. 552 S., 189 Abb. s/w, 36 Farbtafeln, CHF 78,00/€ 71,00. ISBN 978‐3‐0340‐1305‐5[REVIEW]Sabine Fastert - 2017 - Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 40 (4):400-402.
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