Facing reality in preparing for biological warfare: a conversation with George Poste. Interview by Jeff Goldsmith.

Pygmalion in Conversation with Pierre Bourdieu:A Sociological Perspective

George Bernard Shaw's masterpiece Pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that Linguistic Competence is one of the markers of social status. It presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. This work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as Freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...

Preserving national security: the growing role of the life sciences.

Integrating care: a talk with Kaiser Permanente's David Lawrence. Interview by Jeff Goldsmith.

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Effectiveness of virtual reality -based worry exposure therapy on the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder

This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of virtual reality-based worry exposure therapy on the severity of symptoms and cognitive avoidance in patients with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. This study was conducted in the framework of a single-subject experimental design using multiple baselines with a 6-week follow-up. Three women with GAD were selected through a structured clinical...

George Marion Boswell, Jr., MD: a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2002;15:275–288 George Boswell (Figure 1) was born near Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 12, 1920. He grew up in Texas, primarily in the Dallas area (Figures 2 and 3). After finishing high school at age 15, he went to McMurry College for 2 years and then transferred to Texas Tech University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1940. The following year he entered ...