The author has set out to provide the minimum information of preventive medicine which a practitioner of medicine should have: accordingly this book reads in many places like a series of notes for a course of lectures. The word " Practical " in the title is misleading; the most practical items in the book are the photographs which show various up-to-date methods of disease prevention, and with ...

OBJECTIVE Cotard's syndrome is a rare psychiatric syndrome. Its core symptom is nihilistic ideation or delusion. CASE REPORT A female patient with Cotard's syndrome symptoms associated with out of body experience and depersonalization, and complicated grief was referred for evaluation. She believed that she was killed by a creature named "Aal" in the Persian folklore Conclusions: Cultural and...

irregular practitioners of medicine and surgery, who occupy to them the same relative position as quacks and bone-setters to European physicians and surgeons. The individuals referred to may be of any caste or profession, but are peculiar in one circumstance, that their skill has been exercised in the same line from father to son?often for many generations. The Brahmins, being as ready as their...

abstract background: ethics was discussed for many years in medical ethics through rules, theories, hypothesis and religious. there are some organs in iran that working on ethics. department of medical science is one of them that has his own instructions on ethics. this study aims to review some of the challengeable issues in medicine. conclusion: department of ethics in iranian academy of medi...

We studied developmental trends in 5 important reasoning tasks that are critical components of the operational definition of rational thinking. The tasks measured denominator neglect, belief bias, base rate sensitivity, resistance to framing, and the tendency toward otherside thinking. In addition to age, we examined 2 other individual difference domains that index cognitive sophistication: cog...