Art and Freedom

False dichotomies: EBM, clinical freedom, and the art of medicine.

According to numerous commentators, clinical freedom, the art of medicine, and, by implication, a degree of patient welfare, are threatened by evidence based medicine (EBM). As EBM has developed over the last fifteen years, claims about better evidence for medical treatments, and improvements in healthcare delivery, have been matched by critiques of EBM's reductionism and uniformity, its proble...

The Freedom of Clinicians and the Art of the Impossible

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170163 Systemic arterial hypertension – or simply hypertension, in casual language – is considered the major and most common risk factor for death and disability of non-communicable diseases.1,2 Its prevalence in Europe ranges from 30% to 45%.3 In the United States, two thirds of the adults older than 60 years are hypertensive.4 In South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, hypertens...

Freedom and Human Dignity

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W10: Art and Anxiety

The objective of this session is to identify that how films, movies and TV series can affect on anxiety level of the audiences. In this session, actors, directors, and psychologists are going to discuss about the role of TV series, films and their contents on decreasing or increasing of anxiety and the importance of “identification” between audiences and actors or actresses.

Freedom of Association and Freedom of Expression