A Carer's Perspective: The View From Australia

A carer's perspective: the view from Australia.

I am a carer of a relative with schizophrenia, who was born in 1975, diagnosed and hospitalized in 1994, and referred to here as “M.” I have a doctorate in anthropology and have read extensively on psychiatry and have found the Schizophrenia Bulletin particularly valuable, particularly the “First Person’s Account” feature, which commenced in 1979, as enabling a nonsufferer to understand the exp...

A View of the World from a Split - Brain Perspective

A view on the iconic turn from a semiotic perspective

O9: Securing Children in Cars from the Trauma Biomechanical Point of View. A Historical and Global Perspective

Since the 1960 Child Safety Systems in cars have been developed. The 3 point safety belt for adults rated as one of the 10 most important inventions for mankind, the seat belt has saved more than 1.5 Million lives. As well children have to be secured in a car but the 3 point belt is designed for adults. A 27 kg child is forced forward with 1.200 kg at 48 kph impact velocity. Here vulnerable bod...

Evaluating the Business Value of CPOE for Cancer Care in Australia: A Resource Based View Perspective

Today, cancer is one of the leading causes of death throughout the world. This threatening disease has huge negative impacts, not only on quality of life, but also on the healthcare industry, whose resources are already scarce. Thus, finding new approaches for cancer care has been a central point of interest during the last few decades. One of these approaches is the use of computerised physici...