1 Poison Control and Drug Information Center (PCDIC), College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. 2 Department of pharmacology and toxicology, College of medicine and health sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. 3 WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Information, National Poison Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Mala...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how poetry and poetry therapy are useful tools in existentially oriented psychotherapeutic practice. This paper will accomplish this aim in several ways. First, a brief introduction to poetry therapy will be presented. Second, the main principles of existential therapy will be explored. Third, the congruence between poetry therapy and existential theo...

BACKGROUND Arts based approaches have been used in health education in various ways e.g. to develop emotional awareness, reduce anxiety and stress and assess communication skills. OBJECTIVES This evaluation aimed to explore the use of poetry writing as a way for undergraduate nursing students to consider their feelings about important practice issues. METHODS 42 first year undergraduate nur...

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

The aim of the paper is to explore the development of psychiatry in Palestine from two main perspectives: ethnicity and immigration. In Palestine the subject of immigration and psychiatry were highly complicated and had unique features. Thus, both psychiatrists and patients were immigrants who belonged to the same ethnic group sharing the same ideology and objectives. The examination will uncov...

Background: Ischemic Heart Disease has been increasing in the Middle East and North Africa. Hypertension is an important modifiable risk factor of IHD and play an important role in the epidemic of IHD. Hypertension is responsible for about 45% of IHD mortality and affects more than one billion people around the world. Objective: This study aims to quantify the population attributable fraction...

This study compared eye movements during the reading of authentic prose and poetry with and without enjambment presented in their original layout and in a manipulated layout. We hypothesised that we would find differences in reading patterns on the basis of the layout in which the text was presented. We indeed found differences in reading pattern between prose and poetry, poetry with and withou...

This article explores one of the many manifestations of the mysterious link between mathematics and poetry—the phenomenon of poetry inspired by mathematics. Such poetry responds to the mathematical concerns and accomplishments of the day, be it a ground breaking definition or technique, a long standing unsolved conjecture, or a celebrated theorem. The motivation for writing the poems, their mat...

The forms of Chinese classic poetry have been developed through thousands years of history and are still current in today’s poetry society. A re-classification of the rhyming words, however, is necessary for the classic poetry writing to be done in the new settings of modern Chinese language. In order to maintain the continuation of the poetry forms, computing technology can be used to help the...