Quid pro quo

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Quid pro quo ( Latin for “this for that”) is a legal and economic principle according to which a person who gives something should receive an appropriate return service. It is comparable to the Latin proverbs manus manum lavat ( “One hand washes the other” ) and do ut des (“I give so that you give”).

Different uses

Quid pro quo is used in sociology and game theory as an explanatory approach to explain cooperative behavior in egoists (cf. Homo oeconomicus ).

Quidproquo ( quid pro quo?, Literally “What for whom?”) Also means accidentally swapping two things and Quiproquo (“who for whom?”) Means confusing two people.

Quid pro quo was also used in pharmacy as a term to express the pharmacist's ability to replace certain components of a preparation with others. Such a substitution was already known in the Middle Ages and corresponding substitutes were also published in medical literature - for example in Circa instans .

Trivia

  • Quid pro quo a book published on June 24, 2016 album that was medieval rock - band In Extremo titled.
  • Quid pro quo is the condition in the film The Silence of the Lambs (1991) that Hannibal Lecter sets in talks with the budding FBI agent Clarice Starling in order to help her solve a series of murders.

See also

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: quid pro quo  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon for the German people . A guide to community knowledge dissemination and entertainment. FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1837 ( zeno.org [accessed on November 27, 2019] Lexicon entry “Quid pro quo”).
  2. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . 6th edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909 ( zeno.org [accessed on November 27, 2019] Lexicon entry “Quid pro quo”).
  3. John M. Riddle: Quid pro quo. Studies in the history of drugs. Brookfield 1992 (= Collected studies series , 3367).
  4. ^ Paul-Hermann Berges: "Quid pro quo". On the history of drug substitution. Mathematical and scientific dissertation, Marburg an der Lahn 1975.
  5. ^ Paul-Hermann Berges: drug adulteration. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages , I, 1096 f.
  6. Konrad Goehl : Observations and additions to the "Circa instans". In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 69-77, here: p. 71.