In TMD study a diastema appears to be developing between clinicians who are involved in patient treatment and researchers involved in dental research. The dentist is either the artful clinical practitioner or the scientific experimental researcher. Certainly a person can do both but the subtle intellectual division is a belief that one does not do both simultaneously. Arguments such as whether ...

The Church of Satan, the seminal example organizational Satanism, was founded in 1966. During 1970s, Satan wracked by a history numerous schisms. Despite notoriety Satanism popular culture, few scholars have analyzed as religious organization. Furthermore, not many directly discussed schisms that it has undergone. purpose this research is to analyze an understudied case American history, and it...

We discuss the "schism" between medicine and public health in light of advances in genomics and the expected evolution of health care toward personalized treatment and prevention. Undoubtedly, genomics could deepen the divide between the two worlds, but it also represents an important and perhaps unique opportunity for healing the schism, given the volume of new scientific discoveries and their...

I argue that evolutionary strategies of kin selection and game-theoretic reciprocity are apt to generate agent-centered and agentneutral moral intuitions, respectively. Such intuitions are the building blocks of moral theories, resulting in a fundamental schism between agent-centered theories on the one hand and agentneutral theories on the other. An agent-neutral moral theory is one according ...

Recent changes in psychoanalysis and substance abuse treatment are healing long-standing rifts that had kept these two fields apart. This article elaborates the historical positions that contributed to the schism and describes how the harm reduction model of substance abuse treatment and the relational orientation in psychoanalysis can bring them together. Three clinical examples illustrate how...