Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscripts represent an unusual presentation of three interrelated areas of family, devotion, and medicine. By examining her autobiography, meditations, and medical papers, I draw together literary analysis and discourses of female devotional and social practices with that of medical discourses to illustrate the ways in which women practitioners may have acquired and disse...

The contents of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) can only be understood by studying aspects of the last one hundred years of psychiatric history. This paper deals with: (1) three aspects of Kraepelinian psychiatry--descriptive psychiatry, Kraepelin's devotion to empirical research and his inability always...

Physicians attempting to carry out well-executed scientific investigations require an historical perspective; an awareness of our ignorance; an imagination unencumbered by scientific prejudices; originality, curiosity and imagination; patience and persistence in the face of frustration; adaptability and perseverance; a critical spirit of evaluation and willingness to question dogma; devotion to...

After a delay of almost two decades, desferrioxamine (DF) has been reintroduced for clinical use by the pioneering work of British investigators such as Michael Berry, Bernadette Modell, Martin Pippard and Victor Hoffbrand (1). The widespread use of DF was firmly established thanks to the exceptional devotion of our Italian colleagues. In the following, I shall focus on the impact of iron chela...

Abstract This study explored the occupational devotion of lifestyle entrepreneurs and their well-being. Although number enterprises in sports industry increased over past years, limited literature exists on this topic. Therefore, paper focused who turned into occupations. We conducted semi-structured interviews a follow-up survey with ( N = 13) from various (e.g., yoga, kiting, football). The t...

For my family. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is time to draw a period to my PhD endeavor. I feel extremely lucky to meet so many talented people during these years. I am grateful for their friendship, help, encouragement, and support. First, I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. G. Tong Zhou, for providing this opportunity for me to study at Georgia Tech. Her constant encouragement and valuable advic...

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