Literature
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Art and aging.

16 Jun 2009 The study explores the process of aging in artists as reflected in their creative output after the age of 60. Additionally, a wide range of artists who died young are also included, as their late work, i.e. the work of their last years of life, is ... Read more...

[The history of the study of On ancient medicine]

30 May 2009 The treatise On Ancient Medicine is nowadays one of the most admired, and most studied, of those making up the Corpus Hippocraticum. But this favored position is not a ancient phenomenon, but a modern phenomenon. The treatise contributed to the ... Read more...

Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East.

27 Apr 2009 The evolution of languages provides a unique opportunity to study human population history. The origin of Semitic and the nature of dispersals by Semitic-speaking populations are of great importance to our understanding of the ancient history of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Literature'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Influential professionals inspiring younger generations. 29 Sep 2009
• Art and aging. 16 Jun 2009
• [The history of the study of On ancient medicine] 30 May 2009
• Infectious entertainment. 30 May 2009
• D. Carleton Gajdusek, MD (1923-2008). 29 Apr 2009
• Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East. 27 Apr 2009
• Imaginative literature and Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking. 30 Mar 2009
• The reading cure. 30 Mar 2009
• Reality = relevance? Insights from spontaneous modulations of the brain's default network when telling apart reality from fiction. 9 Mar 2009
• Reflections: neurology and the humanities. Guns in the afternoon. 8 Mar 2009
• Tango with cows. 27 Feb 2009
• [Instruments, books and other objects memorable to (almost) forgotten opinions, therapies, buildings, etc. Bundle disease reports] 13 Feb 2009
• Research insights and insides:"Science-in-Fiction" as a contribution to the Third Culture Concepts. Feb 2009
• Robotic health care. 30 Jan 2009
• Fictional characters' emotional state representation: what is its degree of specificity? 30 Jan 2009
• [1940: a crisis of angina, by Paul Morand] 12 Jan 2009
• Natural representations: diagram and text in Darwin's "On the origin of species". 30 Dec 2008
• Reflections on Darwin and Darwinizing. 30 Dec 2008
• Women, the family, and the fate of the nation in American anti-Catholic narratives, 1830-1860. 30 Dec 2008
• Medieval Arab lesbians and lesbian-like women. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Literature'

Definition: Writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest. The body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age. (Webster, 3d ed)

Descriptor UI: D008091

Alternative terms: Literature; Literatures;

Related Mesh Headings: Medicine in Literature;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.517;

Technical Notes: the body of literary works; TN 121: differentiate from BIBLIOGRAPHY; relation to BOOKS: Manual 33.11