Due to the pressure of society on boys as future heads households, in addition trend masculinity crisis and male underachievement education, single parents bear massive burden parenting, educating nurturing without presence their fathers. Single mothers must prepare specific strategies fulfil boys’ need for a father figure. This study aims provide an overview mothers' parenting sons. uses quali...

A 12-month-old healthy, normally developing boy presented with rapidly increasing head circumference over 2 months and 1 week of strabismus. Head circumference was 50 cm (.99th percentile; mother 5 59.5 cm; father 5 56.5 cm). Examination showed limited abduction OD, overshoot of adduction OD, and no papilledema. MRI (figure) showed the right anterior inferior cerebellar artery traversing the ro...

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Figure 1) was born on November 12, 1833, in the capital of the Imperial Russia St. Petersburg, as a rejected and illegitimate son of 62-year-old Georgian prince Luka Gedevanishvili (according to one historical source) or prince Luka Stepanovich Gedeonov (second historical source) and a 37 years younger Russian peasant Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonovna. The father ...

Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great (356-323B.C.) and established by the Ptolemaic Pharaohs, was the seat of learning for many famous Greek physicians. Its teachers had access to a library of some 7,000 scrolls, probably the largest collection of any country. Hellenistic Alexandria’s renowned scholars included the physiologist Erasistratus, Herophilus (c. 330-c. 260 B.C.) [1] (Figure 1)-...

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2003;16:221–229 E llen Taylor (name changed from Moncy) Seldin (Figure 1) was born in Peking, China, on July 28, 1939. Her father was a naval officer and therefore they lived in several different countries. After graduation from public high school, she went to nursing school at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She obtained a nursing degree and then enrolled in Boston Univers...

The aim of this study was to analyze the nature of affective relationships between parents and children and to explore representational models in a sample of 111 children aged between 3 and 6, assessed using a projective measure. The results obtained confirm that, globally, security in the representation of attachment is higher with mothers. The figure of the father in the established hierarchy...

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 686-689 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au History Sir William’s grandfather, Edward Osler, was Featherstone (William Osler’s father) and brother whose children scattered to the United States, Sou Australia. Indeed, Harvey Cushing, the contempo neurosurgeon and Osler’s biographer, stated that he h of...