This article is co-authored by a patient with oesophageal adenocarcinoma and his physician, who performed oesophagectomy. The patient relates his pre-operative preparation and post-operative experience. The physician comments on the alarming increase in the incidence of this cancer, risk factors, and treatment. As illustrated by the patient's report, the physician also discusses the importance ...

Authors: Myla Browne, M.A. is a graduate student in clinical psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The focus of her research and clinical work is in the area of the rehabilitation of the severely and persistently mentally ill. She has participated in research on the innovative cognitive rehabilitation technique of shaping procedures integrated with modular skills training to increas...

We aim to complement the work of legal scholars by investigating the effects of constitutional provisions for states of emergency, on the respect for personal (or physical) integrity rights, in instances in which governments are confronted with domestic crises. Our findings show that such constitutional provisions have an important impact on governments’ propensities to abuse such rights. Howev...

Two life writers in the same family--one neurotypical, one autistic—converse about mountain of material they’ve produced: poems, memoir, essays, scholarship, and documentary film. Preferring to conceive their work as interdependent enmeshed, not bound by strictures identity politics thus separate or conflicting, they advance a neurocosmopolitan rhizomatous understanding self words. David James ...

Justin Marshall is Professor of Neurobiology and Marine Biology at the University of Queensland in Australia within The Queensland Brain Institute. He can be labelled a visual ecologist as he studies comparative eye design and how this is guided by the physics of light. He has co-written a book called “Visual Ecology”, co-edited a book called “Sensory Processing in Aquatic Environments”, is co-...

John Bangs (Chapter 10) is a Special Consultant to the General Secretary at Education International (EI), and Chair of Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) Working Group on Skills OECD. has co-authored number books education skills policy such as Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching (2010), Teacher Self Efficacy, Voice Leadership (2012) or Re-inventing Schools? (2020). He was previously tea...

BACKGROUND Linking undergraduate medical education to scientific research is necessary for the quality of future health care, and students´ individual research projects are one way to do so. Assessment of the impact of such projects is of interest for both educational and research-oriented segments of medical schools. Here, we examined the scholarly products and medical students' career prefere...