Systems thinking in practice is a heuristic framework based upon ideas of boundary critique for guiding the use and development of tools from different traditions in managing complex realities. Three interrelated features of the framework are drawn out – contexts of systemic change, practitioners as change agents, and tools as systems constructs that can themselves change through adaptation. A ...

JHE year 1728 is a notable one in the annals of British medicine, for during it were born two men who later made outstanding contributions to the advancement of medicine and natural science. The story of the life and work of John Hunter has been recounted in detail by successive generations of Hunterian orators and is well known, but the personality and achievements of Joseph Black are less fam...

This paper first uncovers the subtle spiritual narcissism that has characterized historical approaches to religious diversity and discusses the shortcomings of the main forms of religious pluralism that have been proposed as its antidote: ecumenical, soteriological, postmodern, and metaphysical. It then argues that a participatory pluralism paves the way for an appreciation of religious diversi...

M Servetus or Miguel Serveto ( 1 5 0 9 o r 1 5 1 1 1 5 5 3 ) wa s a theologian, physician and Renaissance humanist. He was born in Villanueva in Argon, Spain. A prodigy and a polymath, h e wa s ve r s e d i n m a n y s c i e n c e s : mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, g e o g r a p h y , h u m a n a n a t o m y a n d pharmacology as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and scholarly st...

The article intends to show the significance of Ch. Peirce’s ideas for development contemporary philosophy, find out main directions his criticism principles Cartesian and more broadly modern philosophy (where it comes from Descartes) consider positive program which he offers as an alternative Modern philosophy. Peirce starts a pragmatic semiotic approach human nature, consciousness cognition. ...

A Handbook of Midwifery. By W. R. Dakin, M.D. Pp. xx., 629. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1897. Dr. Dakin begins his book with an exceptionally clear account of the processes connected with the development of the ovum. The different steps are simply and clearly described and well illustrated. In the anatomical portion of the work "Some excellent illustrations show very clearly the relations ...

Since the 1990s, “modern-type” depression (MTD), which has different features from melancholic depression, has been reported and has become a mental health problem in Japan. Although psychological studies of MTD are very limited, previous studies have proposed Interpersonal Sensitivity (IS) and Privileged Self (PS) as personality features of MTD. IS and PS are measured by the Interpersonal Sens...

Studying the viability of innovative urban access design is the key to achieve optimum results when attempting to transform dogmatism referring to conventional car-orientation into a meaningful driver of modal change that is founded on the actual societal needs for future transportation. An efficient public bicycle scheme could be the very definition of a solution that could encourage and even ...

The aim of this study was to explore nurses' and physicians' perspectives on and reasoning about the use of restraint during medical procedures on newly admitted preschoolers in somatic hospital care. We analysed qualitative data from individual interviews with a video recall session at the end with seven physicians and eight nurses. They had earlier participated in video recorded peripheral ve...

Social media platforms have enabled people to freely express their views and discuss issues of interest with others. While it is important to discover the topics in discussions, it is equally useful to mine the nature of such discussions or debates and the behavior of the participants. There are many questions that can be asked. One key question is whether the participants give reasoned argumen...