Myocardial infarction is a dreaded companion of the civilization of our time. The "heart attack," the coronary thrombosis, the myocardial infarction lurk behind the corner, striking strangers, patients, friends, and ourselves. The toll taken by this single "disease" in many hospitals equals or even exceeds that from almost all other diseases together. Must it be so? This is the question many ph...

The lay public is much more likely to have encountered a forensic psychiatrist on television or in the movies than to have encountered a real one. Thus, by way of popular culture, the jury's perceptions and expectations of forensic expert witnesses may have been formed long before they take the stand. We describe a typology of five categories of forensic experts portrayed in fiction: Dr. Evil, ...

How can we more formally define good and evil? My esteemed colleague Stanley Krippner PhD has suggested to me “that something is ‘good’ if it is life-potentiating and helps people manifest the potentials with which they entered this world. Something is ‘bad’ if it is life-depotentiating and blocks their potentials. Of course, culture plays a critical role and often what is ‘good’ in one culture...

We speak a different language, and here our tongue is incomprehensible. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption... but to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things,...

The central distinction in Derek Edyvane’s book Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil: Political Ethics in Uncertain Times is that between aspirational politics and preventive politics. I am going to dedicate the first section of the paper to the analysis of this distinction. There are authors who say that the two politics are symmetrical. In their opinion, preventing evil is preventing the ...

The age-old philosophical problem of evil, especially prominent in Western philosophy, as resulting from the intellectual irreconcilability some appellations God with presence evil – indeed, myriads world, has been debated upon by many African religious scholars; particularly, philosophers. These include John Mbiti, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, E. B. Idowu and E.O. Oduwole. While debate often ab...

IN THE Seventeenth-century heyday of the Royal Touch, the Oxfordshire village of Stanton St. John felt amply the rigours of scrofula, the King's Evil. Its residents looked eagerly to the possibility of cure by the Touch. The practice of touching for scrofula by English sovereigns was performed from Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne, while the Hanoverians by and large refrained from following i...

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