Citation

Möhn R. Aktuelle Derm. 2014; 40(1-2): 50-54.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Theme)

DOI

10.1055/s-0033-1344198

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Abstract

In Richard Wagner's operas you will find medieval medical beliefs which were influenced by christian traditions and the doctrine of humours originating in classical antiquity. A distinction is made between an objective and a personal relationism of the cause of a disease and its cure, which is demonstrated by examples from Parsifal, Götterdämmerung, Tristan and Isolde and Tannhäuser. The Fliegende Holländer evokes associations with contemporary problems of living organ donation and physician assisted suicide. © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart. New York.

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