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Seclusion: A Safe Place? Remarks on the Biography of an Outsider

2018; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-72508-6_2

2523-8671

Gerhard Benetka,

Medical History and Research

Gustav Ichheiser was and remained a so-called scientific outsider at the time of his life. This chapter shows that this role of the outsider is anything but desirable. Seclusion isn’t a safe place. The costs and downfalls of such a “safe place” are reviewed with emphasis on the tremendous loss of scientific knowledge as a result of it.