Scientific Humanisms and the Anthropocene, Or the Dream of Steering the Evolution of the Human and Natural World

This contribution engages with different forms of humanism coming out of the history of science and evolutionary biology, called new, scientific, evolutionary, and ecological, from the interwar years to the post-war period.The focus lies on issues of progress, teleology, universalism, and Eurocentrism in the associated conceptualizations of (evolut

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Treatment of hypertension during the COVID-19 pandemic: questions about the blockade of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system

Arterial hypertension was one of the most common comorbidities associated with a high risk of death in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.Patients with hypertension are routinely and according to standards treated with angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors) or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) II.ACE inhibitors or ARB II are in

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