ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.10.3 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(1), 71–80 1School of Psychology & Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, 1st Floor, Old Baker Building, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia 2School of Psychology & Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, N...

M of us have a personal idiosyncrasy, to remember eponyms in c l in ica l medicine and other branches. They include syndromes, phenomenas, laws and rules, tests, manoeuvres, triads, tetrads, etc. Most of the times, they indicate te names of the persons who first described them, but some imply other persons or situations. De Musset's sign (head nodding with each heart beat) at times seen in aort...

Possible Lines of Approach • Representative status of IM for the Victorian era, poet laureateship • IM and the culture of mourning, public and private, mourning process, melancholia • Form and structure of IM, composition over 17 years, issue of unity vs. division • Poetics: tetrameter, abba rhyme scheme, repetition, use of apostrophe • Comparison with other elegies (e.g. Milton’s “Lycidas,” Sh...

1Diet.?This was a difficulty. The normal food for a gorilla is the tops of bamboo shoots and wild celery, which means an enormous amount of roughage : a male gorilla is said to pass 1 cwt. of faeces a day. The Zoo diet arranged for him was milk, special wholemeal bread, and bananas (he was having forty-eight a day at the outbreak of war), and when bananas were no longer obtainable they were rep...

Immunology, as a branch of biology, deals with two fundamental issues. First, what features make one particular group of organisms unique and distinct from other organisms of similar kind? Second, how are the mechanisms that protect organisms from their predators built and maintained? Until after World War II immunology lacked formal theoretical approach to these issues, but it was delivered wi...

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Nursing care can be considered a social action that is set in the everyday world, where intersubjective relations are established and must be valued by the nurse in the different contexts in which it acts. It is a theoretical study which aimed to highlight the main concepts of the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz's and its contribution to Nursing as a knowledge and professional practice fi...