L et’s not kid ourselves (and I’m talking to anyone who graduated over 20 years ago):There are many more freshman entering colleges and universities who are not as “good” as we were when we were freshmen;many of today’s undergraduate academic programs not as “good” as ours were; and many of today’s graduates not as “good” as we were. If you think I’m going to refute or contradict those assertio...

Field Marshal Sir John Dill held the most important military offices of the Second World War. In the supreme crisis of May 1940, as the evacuations from Dunkirk were about to get under way, he was made Chiefofthe Imperial General Staff(CIGS). In the critical instant ofDecember 1941, as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reverberated around the world, he was translated to the United States to b...

YES Dr St Godard argues1 that physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia (PASVE; I will avoid any suggestion of a euphemism) are not in anyone’s interest. Ultimately, his arguments rest on a subjective definition of compassion, and a personal view about the role of medicine and suffering. I respect his arguments, but I do not feel that any of them justify a societal ban on PASVE. Compa...

An article in this issue describes principles of “transition management” developed by the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP). Although the association’s efforts are commendable, I believe that the principles do not reflect some of the realities of providing community care. First, AACP offers little definition of “transition” beyond “moving from one level of care to another” ...

BEFoRE 1789 mental patients were interned in France in three types of institutions: the state-directed hopital general, the clerical institution (often called charit6), and the small private pension, maison de sante. Hopital general is a misnomer and a euphemism. In Germany at that time these institutions were far more appropriately called Zuchthdiuser, in England "work-houses", and in certain ...

As of October 8, 2014, the second most viewed publication on the Aesthetic Surgery Journal’s website is an article on cryolipolysis that was published over 14 months ago. To my knowledge, this communication represents the first original article in the Aesthetic Surgery Journal to focus on “commercial experience.” It may be the first article in the Journal to quantitate cross-selling. No measure...

PAUL HEYER, Nature, human nature, and society: Marx, Darwin, biology, and the human sciences, Westport, Conn., and London, Greenwood Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. xvi, 266, £23.95. HOIMAR VON DITFURTH, The origins of life. Evolution as creation, translated by Peter Heinegg, London, Harper & Row, 1982, 8vo, pp. xv, 279, £9.50. One way or another, Charles Darwin has always been linked with people he did ...

Drummond and Granston (2004) believe that nausea and headache, two key symptoms of migraine, interact pathogenetically by reinforcing each other in a vicious circle during attacks. These authors elaborate upon the role of extracranial vasodilatation during optokinetic stimulation— painful as well as painless—in patients with migraine and control subjects, respectively, as an important component...

Различные речевые стратегии и тактики их реализации широко применяются в современной политической медиажурналистике как одно из средств ведения информационной войны. Для оказания необходимого воздействия на аудиторию используется богатый арсенал речевых стратегий тактик. Речеповеденческая стратегия дискредитации ее входят число наиболее частотных медиажурналистики. В статье проводится анализ дв...

This study examined the extent to which Nigerian national dailies cover traditional medicine practice in Nigeria. Content analysis was used for the study. The data were derived from a sample of 416 issues of four purposively selected Nigerian newspapers: Daily Trust, New Nigerian, The Guardian, and The Punch, from a population of 2,920 issues covering the period between 2005 and 2006. Analysis ...