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Podium for the opposition?

This is quite a paradoxical era. Scientific research is in its most productive phase and it continues to produce many beneficial technologies for mankind. For example, we rapidly progress towards a better understanding of many diseases and come up with multiple new approaches to cure them. At the same time, however, the voices against science and technology have never been more shrill. But unsu...

Pediatric Pathologies that have Leukocoria as Presenting Sign: the Podium

Leukocoria is a condition in which the normal red reflex of the retina is replaced by a yellowish or grayish white color. Retinoblastoma is the most common cause of leuko-coria in the pediatric age, followed by persistent fetal vasculature and Coats’ disease. Clinical and imaging signs and differential diagnosis features of these pathologies are evaluated.

Epidemiology as a liberal art.

Epidemiology has features that resemble those of the traditional liberal arts. This makes it fit both for inclusion in an undergraduate curriculum and as an example in medical school of the continuing value of a liberal education. As a "low-technology" science, epidemiology is readily accessible to nonspecialists. Because it is useful for taking a first look at a new problem, it is applicable t...

Literature as a Fine Art

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...