In good hands

The heart is in good hands.

A review of mechanical cardiopulmonary interactions is presented and some extrapolations are made concerning cardiopulmonary resuscitation, with the following conclusions: (1) The cardiac fossa of the lungs provides a soft heart bed at normal lung volumes, but tenses at higher volumes to improve the support of the heart during postural changes. (2) The cardiac fossa is a physiologic constraint ...

Are Invisible Hands Good Hands? Moral Hazard, Competition, and the 2 Best in Health Care Markets

Good and Bad in the Hands of Politicians: Spontaneous Gestures during Positive and Negative Speech

BACKGROUND According to the body-specificity hypothesis, people with different bodily characteristics should form correspondingly different mental representations, even in highly abstract conceptual domains. In a previous test of this proposal, right- and left-handers were found to associate positive ideas like intelligence, attractiveness, and honesty with their dominant side and negative idea...

In good hands: the history of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

physicians; it was a matter of killing, and killing too, is a medical matter'."3 The murderous techniques developed for these "medical matters" were to be the progenitors of the methods that were to be employed for larger-scale extermination during World War II.4 How far they were accepted by the medical profession is a focal point of Cleansing the Fatherland, comprising principally a collage o...

Morphing Hands and Virtual Tools (or What Good Is an Extra Degree of Freedom)

Manipulators with large numbers of degrees of freedom, from the human hand to the trunk of an elephant, are common in the biological world. These freedoms allow highly exible and robust performance of complex tasks. However, progress in developing and controlling artiicial high-degree-of freedom manipulators has been slow. The main problem is that traditional robotics has focussed on the soluti...