Sharing the Greek Culture With a Global Perspective
Greek Mythology and Medical and Psychiatric Terminology
By Loukas Athanasiadis, Psychiatric Bulletin (1997), 21, 781-782 781 A great number of terms in modern psychiatry, medicine and related disciplines originate from the Greek, including pathology, schizophrenia, ophthalmology, gynaecology, anatomy, pharma cology, biology, hepatology, homeopathy, allopathy and many others. There are also many terms that originate from figures from ancient Greek mythology (or the Greek…
Is there life after birth?
Dr. Manos Danezis posted in his page (Manos Danezis) in Greek the “Boy and Girl” story in “Morphogeny”, a book by Pablo J.Luis Molinero. I found it in English. Here it is: “In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of…