Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called "animal magnetism", later referred to as mesmerism. Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following between about 1780 and 1850, and continued to have some influence until the end of the 19th century. In 1843, the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnotism" for a technique derived from animal magnetism; today the word "mesmerism" generally functions as a synonym of "hypnosis". Mesmer also supported the arts, specifically music; he was on friendly terms with Haydn and Mozart.
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians, believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like". Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is chemically indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product. Between each dilution homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent "remember" the original substance after its removal. Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease.
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and Jacob Winslow, he is sometimes referred to as "the father of modern physiology."
Paul Bert was a French zoologist, physiologist and politician. He is sometimes given the sobriquet "Father of Aviation Medicine".
The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) is an international non-governmental organization of 40 international, national, and associate member groups representing the biomedical science community. It was jointly established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1949 as a successor to the International Medical Congress that organized 17 conferences from 1867 until the 1913 outbreak of World War I.
The European Physical Society (EPS) is a non-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe through methods such as physics outreach, supporting physicists to engage in the design and implementation of European science policy, and advocating physics research. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical societies of 42 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, the world's largest and oldest organisation of physicists, is a major member.
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, also known as the Geneva Graduate Institute, is a public-private graduate-level university located in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal in mathematics. The Swiss Mathematical Society started the journal in 1929 after a meeting in May of the previous year. The Swiss Mathematical Society still owns and operates the journal; the publishing is currently handled on its behalf by the European Mathematical Society. The scope of the journal includes research articles in all aspects in mathematics. The editors-in-chief have been Rudolf Fueter (1929–1949), J.J. Burckhardt (1950–1981), P. Gabriel (1982–1989), H. Kraft (1990–2005), and Eva Bayer-Fluckiger (2006–present).
Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram. Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, and China. In 2022, Frontiers employed more than 1,400 people, across 14 countries. All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Swiss Political Science Review (SPSR), also known as Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (German), Revue Suisse de Science Politique (French), and Rivista Svizzera di Scienza Politica (Italian) is a quarterly peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal covering political science published by Wiley-Blackwell. The current editors are Prof. Martino Maggetti and Prof. Anke Tresch (University of Lausanne).
Elemente der Mathematik is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering mathematics. It is published by the European Mathematical Society Publishing House on behalf of the Swiss Mathematical Society. It was established in 1946 by Louis Locher-Ernst, and transferred to the Swiss Mathematical Society in 1976. Rather than publishing research papers, it focuses on survey papers aimed at a broad audience.
The Swiss Journal of Palaeontology is a biannual open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering palaeontology and taxonomy published by BioMed Central. It is affiliated with the Swiss Geological Society and a member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
Christoph Jacob Trew was a German physician and botanist. He described numerous plants and published several richly illustrated works. He also brought together a rich collections of medical books of the period gathering nearly 34000 books which were donated to the University of Altdorf and later moved to the Erlangen University library.
Erna Lesky was an Austrian pediatrician and historian of medicine. She was the first woman on the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, and was named as "one of the most illustrious medical historians of the twentieth century" by Owen Harding Wangensteen.
Analyse & Kritik: Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory is a hybrid open access biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg on behalf of the Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, devoted to the fundamental issues of empirical and normative social theory. Publishing articles in English, this journal aims to promote the dialogue between Anglo-American and Continental traditions in the social sciences and ethics.
The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal of economics, published by SpringerOpen on behalf of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, and financially supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Swiss National Bank. The current editor-in-chief is Marius Brülhart.
Mir@bel refers to both the collaborative database designed to gather and make the most of the information available online about trade magazines and the network of professionals who contribute to it. Created in 2009, the knowledge base initially focused on SHS journals but has since been extended to other STM disciplines in line with the needs and investments of network members. Interconnections with various journal portals, library tools and information systems such as Sherpa Romeo have multiplied since its creation.
Alpine Entomology is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal of entomology, published by Pensoft Publishers on behalf of the Swiss Entomological Society.
