Precision Medicine: Historiography of Life Sciences and the Geneticization of the Clinics**

In 2013, Hans Jörg Rheinberger proposed that Mendelian genetics and molecular biology were “scientific ideologies,” that is, for him they are systems of thought whose objects are hyperbolic; they are not, or not yet, in the realm of and not, or not yet, under the control of that system. This article proposes that precision medicine today is a scientific ideology and analyses the implications of this statement for historians of biology, genetics, and medicine.     

Problems of storage and communication of information in the study of gold bracteates

After an Introduction reviewing former research on the subject of the title the author sets up five Basic Models: Morphology, Chronology, Chorology, Ecology and Physical Anthropology (The morphological basic model is composed of three main Artifact Spectra; the chronological model is built up from both purely geological and C14 data; the chorology shows us differently located settlements; the ecological concentrates on sea‐level problems and vegetational and faunal data; as for physical anthropology, the material in this region is scanty).

The Basic Models are then summarized in a concluding scheme.

These Basic Models can be correlated with four Analytical Aspects: Material, Religious, Social and Economic (By the material aspect is meant above all, the function of the artifact. As to the religious aspect the material says almost nothing. The social aspect is concerned with group dimensions, ages and sexes. The economic aspect deals with the yearly faunal cycle from a nutritional viewpoint.) At the end all these building stones are put together in a ‘Proposed Model’. The ‘output’ of this model is three settlement groups which we shall continue to call the Hensbacka, the Sandarna, and the Lihult Cultures in order not to break completely continuity with earlier research.     

Scientisme sur L’histoire D’un Concept Difficile

Today “scientism” is a pejorative concept in every language. But isn’t that just a projection made in order to exploit the fear of “science”? The article develops the argument that scientism is a historical current which can be analyzed in a concrete way. It shows that the word goes back to the 19^th century and got its negative emphasis when “scientific” spiritism on the one hand and Catholicism on the other were struggling against the “exaggerated” claims of natural science.     

Testing Methods of Record Linkage on Swedish Censuses

Abstract.

Research benefits a great deal when different kinds of registers can be combined. Record linkage is an important tool for connecting sources to create longitudinal databases of individual data. In this article, researchers test and evaluate different methods of record linkage used when linking two censuses. By comparing the results of the census linkage with other continuous Swedish parish registers, they find that applying constructed name variables and household links considerably increases the success rate without the risk of introducing bias. Missing links are mainly related to name problems, and appear most frequently among children and when the family structure has changed between the censuses. Faulty links are very few and must be regarded as only a marginal problem for analysis. The study underlines the importance of adapting the linkage process to the special characteristics of the sources.