Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
The Past

This chapter provides introductory sections on Byzantine medical literature and the historical and intellectual setting in which John and his corpus should be placed, including the early Palaiologan revival of knowledge. A special section provides a survey of previous studies on John’s works and identifies the limitations of earlier scholarship, showing that his medical corpus has been inadequately evaluated. It then focuses on John’s biographical details and his works. Particular attention is paid to the dating of John’s works and his use of language. Moreover, new data is provided on the office of aktouarios in late Byzantium showing that, contrary to what has been suggested in the past, there is not sufficient evidence to support the idea that John had a permanent post as court physician.

Touching the Past to Remember the Past

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-397
Author(s):  
Meghan J. Dudley ◽  
Jenna Domeischel
Keyword(s):  
Social Memory ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Article

ABSTRACTAlthough we, as archaeologists, recognize the value in teaching nonprofessionals about our discipline and the knowledge it generates about the human condition, there are few of these specialists compared to the number of archaeologists practicing today. In this introductory article to the special section titled “Touching the Past to Learn the Past,” we suggest that, because of our unique training as anthropologists and archaeologists, each of us has the potential to contribute to public archaeology education. By remembering our archaeological theory, such as social memory, we can use the artifacts we engage with on a daily basis to bridge the disconnect between what the public hopes to gain from our interactions and what we want to teach them. In this article, we outline our perspective and present an overview of the other three articles in this section that apply this approach in their educational endeavors.

CONGENITAL HYPOPLASIA OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Anadil Roselli ◽  
Luiz Torres Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Picture ◽  
Adrenal Glands ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adrenal Hypoplasia

The cases of two sisters with extreme bilateral adrenal hypoplasia, verified at necropsy, have been presented. Two other siblings died in infancy with symptoms which make it very likely that they also had adrenal hypoplasia. A review of the medical literature revealed 23 cases in which necropsy had been performed. These included 15 males and 8 females as well as one set of twins and 3 siblings. Although the incidence of reported cases of adrenal hypoplasia is low, the authors suggest that many cases may have been missed in the past. The clinical picture and possible etiology of this condition have been discussed.

Editorial

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Roseveare
Keyword(s):  
Psoas Abscess ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Hospital Medicine ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
Acute Medicine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hospital Referral ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Few will deny that the past 6 months have been particularly challenging for all clinicians working in hospital medicine. The pressures of ward closures, which many acute hospitals have faced recently, have undoubtedly increased the ‘bottle-neck’ effect at the front door. Any ‘slack’ which might have existed in the past has now disappeared – 82% occupancy, which was once touted as the Holy Grail of bed-crisis prevention now seems a forlorn hope. One of the Government’s solutions is that chronic disease will be managed without admission to hospital. In reality, this will require dramatic changes in the attitudes of patients, carers and general practitioners and will not happen quickly. The impact of any pre-emptive reduction in capacity will be felt long before any such changes take effect. In the meantime it will up to those of us working in the AMU to ‘sort-out’ and ‘turf-out’, where appropriate. Looking on the bright side, at least when the next round of consultant redundancies is announced we should have little difficulty in justifying our existence…. The request to ‘rule-out serious pathology’ is a frequent justification for hospital referral. When the problem is that of a sudden onset of headache the need to rule-out subarachnoid haemorrhage becomes paramount. Most readers will not make the mistake I made once as an SHO, in assuming that negative CT brain scanning is adequate in this context. However, CSF analysis is not always straightforward. Stephen Hill and Ashwin Pinto’s excellent review of this subject will help unravel some of the complexities in this area. Hopefully the reviews of the acute management of chronic liver disease, psoas abscess and sickle cell disease will also be helpful in your day-to-day working practices. I would also draw your attention to the postcard, which Dr Snape has kindly submitted from a collection donated to him by a patient. Referring to the 1918 Avian Inf luenza outbreak the postcard’s author provides a chilling reminder of the impact of this pandemic. If ‘rule-out avian ‘f lu’ becomes a reason for referral to hospital in the future, we will hopefully be well prepared. Finally in a slight change to the previous format there is now a special section of the journal relating to the Society for Acute Medicine. I am aware that a large proportion of readers are members of the society and this needs to be ref lected in the journal’s content. The ‘Society Pages’ will become a regular feature in the journal, hopefully providing readers with useful information and updates on developments within Acute Medicine. In this edition I have included the abstracts from the Free Paper session at the recent meeting in Hull, along with a summary of the meeting and programme for the next meeting in the Royal College of Physicians. Submissions for this section could include summaries of working practices within different acute medicine units around the country, as well as experiences of trainees undertaking the new acute medicine training programmes. All would be gratefully received.

scholarly journals THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE HONORED PROFESSOR E. O. MUKHIN INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL FORENSIC MEDICINE (to the 250th anniversary of his birthday)

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 438-445
Author(s):  
V. O. Olkchovskyi ◽  
V. V. Bondarenko
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Medicine ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Age Determination ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Scientific Achievements

The paper highlights the contribution of the well-known national scientist, doctor and teacher, honored professor Efrem Osipovich Mukhin (1766-1850) in the development and formation of national forensic medicine of the beginning of the XIX century. The life and creative path of the scientist, his most significant scientific achievements are shown. Being an anatomist, physiologist, surgeon, hygienist, teacher of N. I. Pirogov and I. V Buyal ’skii professor E. O. Mukhin stood at the origins of the creation of the forensic medical service and is known as a forensic medic, who gave most of his life to the teaching of forensic medicine at the Moscow University. Despite the fact that he was born in Ukraine and his initial way of formation was spent there, his fate was closely related with the Moscow University. His doctoral dissertation “On the stimuli acting on a living human body" was devoted to the questions of physiology. E. O. Mukhin performed forensic autopsies of corpses, including carrying out practical classes with students, paid much attention to the external examination of the corpse at the place of incidence, to the rules of formalizing forensic-medical conclusions - the protocols, created a classification of fatal wounds, considered as necessary to differentiate the murder from suicide, referred asphyxiation, drowning, the action of harmful gases, poisoning to the priorities. In the special section E. O. Mukhin singled out the science on poisons and antidotes, which he read in a separate independent course. In his works he paid special attention to questions of age determination, obstetrics and military-medical examination, establishing of self-harm, ability to perform military service. Throughout his life he was engaged in translations of foreign medical literature. In 1835, E. O. Mukhin was awarded with the title of Honored Professor. He died in 1850 in Russia, in the estate of Koltsovo, Smolensk province.

Reflections on the Evolution of Operations Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Graves
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Management Science ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
65Th Anniversary

In this paper, I provide some observations on how the academic field of operations management has changed over the past 40 years. For this purpose, I have identified and classified the operations management (OM) papers published in Management Science in 1976 and in 2016. From this review, I comment on what’s changed, what’s new, and what we might see in the future. In reflecting on these changes, I also document and discuss how the OM editorial structure and mission have evolved at Management Science over this time. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, Special Section of Management Science: 65th Anniversary.

Causes of glue ear

1985 ◽  
Vol 99 (10) ◽  
pp. 953-966 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Black
Keyword(s):  
Medical Literature ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Secular Changes ◽  
Scientific Support ◽  
The Past ◽  
Knowledge And Beliefs ◽  
Glue Ear ◽  
The Many

SummaryOver the past one hundred years medical views on the cause of glue ear have frequently changed. The medical literature was reviewed to see if these changes reflected advances in the level of scientific support for different causes. This revealed that only a few of the many proposed causes command any scientific support. An explanation for the changing pattern of views on the aetiology of glue ear was therefore sought by considering secular changes in medical knowledge and belief in general. This suggested that the views held on the cause of glue ear at any given time are influenced and largely determined by the prevailing knowledge and beliefs of medicine as a whole. This phenomenon is not peculiar to glue ear—though conditions about which there is considerable uncertainty are probably more susceptible to such influences.

Fallen Monuments: An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dean
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
The Past

Abstract This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and controversy. In addition to summarizing the five contributions that make up the special section, the author offers some reflections on the afterlives of monuments with examples from Canada and Poland.

Of calories and culture

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fokke Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Human Survival ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production Preparation ◽  
Archaeology Of Food

How did people feed themselves in the past? Archaeologists have been asking this question since the early years of the discipline and it remains an important topic to the present day. Perhaps not surprisingly, eating and drinking are among the most essential activities for human survival. Moreover, even though we do not frequently excavate food in a strict sense of the term, a great deal of the artefacts that we find are directly or indirectly related to food, its procurement and production, preparation and consumption and its waste products. In recent years, archaeologists increasingly recognise the cultural and social significance of food (and the animals and plant from which it stems). In this introduction to a special section on the archaeology of food and foodways I would like to reflect briefly on the potential of food archaeologies for studying diverse aspects of life as well as social processes in past societies.

Future Impossible Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Jossianna Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The West ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Key Interventions

This response essay reviews the six contributions to the special section “Con-Federating the Archipelago: The Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation.” These key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West Indies Federation in the twentieth century provoke the following questions: Could we call these two Caribbean confederation projects failures if their centrality in Caribbean political imaginaries suggests otherwise? What are some of the insights that these two projects could offer to Caribbean sociohistorical processes, culture, and political developments? Even though these two projects seem to share a similar political goal, they are also radically different. The author reviews the contributions to the special section in dialogue with examples from Puerto Rico in order to assess the critical intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to.

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