American Physiological Society.

The Power of Fiction: How Literature Educated and Reformed American Society

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...

XXXV International Congress of Physiological Sciences (IUPS Congress 2005).

What does the brain know about blood pressure?

The engine of ABC proteins.

The Wisdom of the Body Revisited.

A Theoretical Study of Solidarity in American Society: The Case of the “Ground Zero Mosque” Controversy

The paper uses the case study of the controversy regarding the construction of a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan, New York, to analyze the different theoretical approaches to the concept of solidarity. It is argued that the presence of affectional solidarity which is based on feelings of caring, friendship and love was very limited in the case under study. Instea...