No published information is currently available about formal "do not resuscitate" (DNR) orders for pediatric patients in developing countries, even though there has been extensive discussion of how to determine who should be involved. This article reports the experience of a clinical ethics committee that recommended DNR orders at a pediatric public hospital in Chile. The committee consisted of...

The materials of the criminal case instituted by Soviet special services against assistant bishop Stanislaviv Diocese Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, teacher, doctor theology Ivan Lyatyshevskyi are analyzed. author believes that nowadays evidence about this religious figure is insignificant, there only short encyclopedic-type reports, articles a popular nature, or individual local history publ...

This article describes the circumstances behind opening of first arithmetic schools in Urals. Together with grammar schools, they formed a new type educational institutions Russia, belonging to mining department and becoming largest secular Russia democratic structure students 1730s. Thanks these it was possible arrange factory apprenticeships for specialists various fields, qualified personnel...

Endo Shusaku's oeuvre is a fascinating literary attempt at reconciliation of (Western) Christianity and Japanese culture. As Christian Japanese, was living embodiment this religious cultural struggle, but he also writer thus in fitting position to express the agonies identity crisis that his compatriots had endure for centuries. was, other words, interested mission process known as inculturatio...

The emergence of heart transplant surgery late m 1967 has confronted us with historic moral and religious issues. To begin, there are fundamental theological scruples regarding heart transplantation related to such doctrines as the physical resurrection of the dead and the Jemish objection to the desecration of a dead body. There are fundamental biological questions as well. What is death? When...

Epidemiology is concerned with the distribution and determinants of disease frequency in human populations (Daniels, Flanders, Eley, & Boring, 1993) Basic to an understanding of Epidemiology is the tenet that disease does not affect everybody equally or at random, but that there are determinants that place some people at a higher risk of developing a disease because of genetic predisposition, e...

The modern infirmary is the evolutional product of the dialectic interface between medical theories at each time and the outcome of their application in clinical practice. The infirmary as we know it today did not exist during antiquity, but the different precursors of the modern hospital emerged as a result of the interaction between medical theory and practice. During antiquity the Hippocrati...

In the period between 1815 and 1818, Sir Humphry Davy read four papers to the Royal Society and published a monograph dealing with a safety lamp for coal miners, all of which record in detail the experimental work that he carried out, with his assistant Michael Faraday, so as to determine how to prevent catastrophic accidents in coal mines by the explosion of fire-damp (methane) in the presence...

In reading the literature of English physiology I have been struck by the continual recurrence of the word, "sacrifice." When a French or German physiologist has destroyed an animal, he says simply that he has killed it, whereas his English or American counterpart almost always says that he has "sacrificed" the animal. No doubt it will be objected that this is a mere convention, one beginning a...