Nature appears in Merleau-Ponty’s early texts more as a context for a phenomenology of embodied existence than as a topic of interest in its own right.1 Since the philosopher became intensely interested in nature only from 1955 or 1956 on, one might think that an exploration of the earlier phenomenology of perception and behavior constitutes a digression from the later “new” ontology. Yet there...

We argue that Gödel’s completeness theorem is equivalent to completability of consistent theories, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem is equivalent to the fact that this completion is not constructive, in the sense that there are some consistent and recursively enumerable theories which cannot be extended to any complete and consistent and recursively enumerable theory. Though any consistent an...

In recent times, we see patients who consult numerous doctors in a short time, and do not obtain definitive diagnoses, or effective therapies, ending up increasing their doubts, insecurities, dissatisfactions, and piles of supplementary tests. Despite the fact that this “low resolution medicine” affects more often users of the national public health system (SUS), it also exists in private medic...

Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a chronic benign inflammatory disorder of skin and mucosa which affects patients of all age groups, sex and race, particularly caucasian prepubertal girls and postmenopausal women. The etiology of LS is unknown, but it has been suggested that genetic predisposition to inflammatory disorders, immunological constitutions, hormonal influences and local factors might play a...

background doctor-patient communication has far reaching influences on the overall well-being of the patients. words are powerful tools in the doctor’s armamentarium, having both healing as well as harming effects. doctors need to be conscious about the choice of their words. this study aimed to determine the frequency and pattern of nocebo phenomenon (np) un-intentionally induced by the commun...