MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'austrian'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:59 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803233&cid=t_135610_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F09%2Fpsychologys-history-of-being-mesmerized%2F All words have a history. But some are particularly interesting to explore when it comes to psychology — because they’re directly born from it. How many times have you been mesmerized by something, so captured by it that it was like you were in a trance? The word “mesmerize” dates back to an 18th century Austrian physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). He established a theory of illness that involved internal magnetic forces, which he called animal magnetism. (It would later be known as mesmerism.) Mesmer believed that good physical and psychological health came from properly aligned magnetic forces; bad health, then, resulted from forces essentially being out of whack. He noticed a treatment that seemed to work particularly well in correcting these misaligned force... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803233 Mon, 09 May 2011 15:35:51 +0100 4803233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4477707&cid=t_135610_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8X7p1dYoGm4%2F By David BoazThe financial crisis of 2008 led to a lot of unfortunate Keynesian and corporatist policymaking, but also to a renewed interest in Austrian economics and particularly to the Austrian theory of the business cycle and the role of the Federal Reserve in creating bubbles and busts. Austrian ideas are most recently examined on BBC and in the Washington Post. Sales of F. A. Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom have soared in the past three years, actually hitting no. 1 on Amazon last summer. The New York Times complained that Tea Party activists had "reached back to dusty bookshelves for long-dormant ideas [in] once-obscure texts by dead writers" such as Hayek, even as its reporters continually urged policymakers to Read. More. Keynes. A rap video on the intellectual battle between Ha... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4477707 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:15:53 +0100 4477707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214087&cid=t_135610_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FkJwKyVQzrAg%2F By David Boaz…and what it is not. That’s Steve Horwitz’s topic in this post at Coordination Problem. He notes a recent post at FrumForum about “the Austrian school’s disdain for American foreign policy and willingness to call Lincoln a tyrant.” No, Horwitz says. Austrian economics is “an approach to the study of human action and the social world, not a set of policy conclusions.” Austrian economics is not the same thing as libertarianism, natural rights, or any perspective on American wars past or present. What Austrian Economics Is is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214087 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:20:29 +0100 4214087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074038&cid=t_135610_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoH04YsEeYK8%2F By David BoazJoshua Green writes in the Atlantic, after discussing the Austrian economists’ views in 1929 on what to do about the not-yet-great depression: Herbert Hoover’s Treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon, offered similar counsel, famously urging Hoover to “liquidate” and “purge the rottenness out of the system.” But this failed to stop the catastrophe. That’s true. And you know, here’s a general rule: Absolutely nothing that a treasury secretary says to a president will affect the real economy if the president ignores his advice and does something else. Hoover didn’t cut federal spending, he doubled it. He established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He propped up wages and prices. Indeed, he launched the New Deal. And Green is right: In the fac... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074038 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:25:54 +0100 4074038 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761373&cid=t_135610_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fpleasure-physician-gratitude-patients-rare-rarer-material-reward-deter-student-feels-call%2F Billroth in tan gown performing surgery Theodor Billroth, legendary 19th century Austrian surgeon (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761373 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:00:24 +0100 3761373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3529766&cid=t_135610_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvkBfRfixDxc%2F By David BoazTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, Liberty Fund has just produced an amazing item — The Portable Library of Liberty, a single DVD containing the complete texts of more than 1000 books, audio interviews with 26 great scholars, and more. And it’s free for the asking! Just take a look at what you could be carrying in your laptop: 1,001 full text titles in PDF format, self-contained and searchable. They are organized by titles, subject areas, and topics. Highlights include the complete scholarly editions of the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill; the collected works of Jefferson, Madison, John Adams, & many others; and 166 full-text books published by Liberty Fund. works by hundreds of authors from Ancient Sumeria to the present, organized by peop... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3529766 Mon, 03 May 2010 21:11:08 +0100 3529766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=764995&cid=t_135610_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F29%2Ffor-heart-health-type-1-kids-must-move%2F Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Research, Exercise, ComplicationsA new report says physical activity is critical for kids with type 1 diabetes because it helps prevent heart trouble later in life. The German and Austrian researchers behind the study reached this conclusion after crunching the numbers for more than 23,000 kids between ages three and eighteen, comparing their health with activity levels. As you would expect, the most active kids had the healthiest hearts and lower levels of cholesterol and triglycerides. By comparison, thirty-six percent of children who were active only once or twice a week had high cholesterol and triglycerides. For type 1 kids, activity levels relate to HbA1c levels: fit children had lower HbA1c levels. High HbA1c levels in childhood practically... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=764995 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 764995