Mechanization of pathological life processes as a method of clinical work

1927 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-403
Author(s):  
M. M. Nevyadomsky
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Work ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
As If

In this article I would like to touch upon one of the basic questions of modern medicine that life itself urges. It is the question of revising the method of clinical work, of revising the direction of the doctor's thought, which has taken root in his mind as a result of the inertia of the progressive advance of medicine, which at one time, probably since Hippocrates, has had a definite bias in its development. And this inertia of medical thought, as if logically justified by the length of time we have been working in a certain direction, thereby hypnotizes us, forcing us to recognize correctness where it does not really exist.

The Problem of Indifferents

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-46
Author(s):  
Aistė Čelkytė
Keyword(s):  
Value Theory ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
As If

This chapter is focused the Stoic value theory. The Stoics notoriously claim that only virtue is good, while the only vice is bad and everything else, including health, wealth, beauty and life itself, are mere indifferents. The inclusion of beauty in this list seems to show that the Stoics were not interested in theorising beauty. A thorough reading of the material shows that beauty is not treated as if it was of no interest in general; the evidence only shows that it is an inferior value to virtue. This interpretation is supported by other evidence, including the texts of later Roman Stoics, such as Epictetus. Most importantly, this interpretation shows that the Stoic value theory and aesthetics are not mutually exclusive areas of study.

Creating the Modern Physician: The Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Era of Medical Education Reform

2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine L. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
American Medical ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Education Reform

In the late nineteenth century, the American system of medical education underwent a complete transformation. Medical colleges shifted from commercial schools where instruction was based almost exclusively on classroom lectures to university-affiliated programs providing hands-on training in both laboratory and clinical work. Medical educators recognized that successfully enacting the new pedagogy required new buildings. By the 1930s, almost every medical college in the United States had rebuilt or significantly renovated its facilities. In Creating the Modern Physician: The Architecture of American Medical Schools in the Era of Medical Education Reform, Katherine L. Carroll analyzes the first wave of schools constructed to house the new medical training. She examines the three dominant types of American medical school buildings, which she argues did more than supply spaces for teaching and research—they defined specific conceptions of modern medicine and helped to shape the modern physician.

Janapadadhwamsa and Covid-19—A Systematic Review and Practical Applicability of Trisutra Ayurveda in Samhita

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 342-347
Author(s):  
Preeti Sujit Borkar
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Spiritual Wellness ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Complete Form ◽  
Representative Work ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
Popular Texts

COVID – 19 is an infectious disease drawing everyone's attention globally for public health concern. It is likely zoonotic in origin, and now its person to person spread has made it fatal. Extensive measures have been taken to control this pandemic. As treatment of COVID -19 modern medicine system, is working on trial and error basis but no specific line of treatment/vaccine has been found till date. Ayurveda is a science of life and its basic concepts were evolved during the Vedic period. These concepts were crystallized, refined and advanced further in Samhita’s. The law of uniformity of nature was established by our Acharya’s, which helped in applying the physical laws to the biological field. The entire nature was their laboratory, and their keen observation and divine vision worked as their instruments to arrive at scientific truths. Disease-free condition is the best sources of virtue, wealth, gratification and emancipation while diseases are destroyers of all these sources, welfare and life itself. Samhita's are the most popular texts of ancient essence, and very few are available in complete form. At present, Samhita's are the only representative work of ancient period providing rational guidance and authoritative support to Ayurveda physicians, research scholars and students. Studying the texts of these primary source material is essential for understanding the physical, mental and spiritual wellness of every individual of the universe. In Ayurveda, epidemics are described as Janapadadhwamsajvyadhi. So everyone is enthusiastically expecting Ayurveda for better results. In this review, article COVID-19 has been discussed on the basic concept of Trisutra in Ayurveda. Its hetu (causes), Lakshana (signs and symptoms) and chikitsa (probable treatment) have been discussed here which can be considered in future as the strategies to avoid such pandemics. These guidelines may act as preventive, protective and curative for the entire community in winning the fear of coronavirus disease.

scholarly journals The Dirty History of Feminism and Sociology: Or the War of Conceptual Attrition

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley Skeggs
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
History Of ◽  
As If

In the telling of the inscription of feminism into sociology, both space and time intervene. Institutionally some departments appear to be at the vanguard of feminist thought, others, as if feminism never happened. These uneven manifestations tell a story about people, place, power and struggle. Even feminism itself operates on different temporalities: while many feminists now ‘forget’ to address ‘woman’ as an object of their research, using instead debates from feminist theory about gender, life itself or relations, others continuing to generate important information on where women are and what they do. The gap between these two positions of object/no object is vast. Yet the perception of objects/subjects and their recognition through citation is central to the achievement of feminism within academia and this is where the struggle continues, as this paper shows. By showing how feminism has impacted upon sociology in a variety of ways: institutionally, theoretically, methodologically, politically, practically, it unearths how many different struggles on many different fronts continue. Rather than accepting the defeat or dilution of feminism this paper shows how feminism has inscribed some of the darkest and deepest recesses of sociology. But also how this is an achievement reliant upon repetition and attrition.

Experiments on Human Beings

Philosophy ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 48 (185) ◽  
pp. 284-287
Author(s):  
C. K. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Kidney Dialysis ◽  
Definition Of Death ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
To Receive

In one way or another the theory and practice of modern medicine is confronting us with many dilemmas, chiefly, though not exclusively, of a moral character; the transplantation of organs, abortion, and euthanasia are examples, and closely associated with these are more obviously conceptual problems such as the definition of death and, for that matter, of life itself. Contemporary moral philosophers have been strangely silent on these matters, and have been content to leave the field to lawyers and churchmen and those few medical men both able and willing to reflect upon their practices. (I think it is fair to say that the attitude of the profession as a whole is exemplified by the physician who recently dismissed a journalist's question about how he decided which patients were to receive kidney dialysis and which not, with the remark ‘I'm not a moralist, I'm a doctor’.)

Rilke

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Louth
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
As If

The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the development of that life as it unfolds over Rilke’s career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us when we read? This is a question of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses it in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world, a recalibration of our ways of attending to it, which set it apart from other kinds of experience. Rilke’s work is often approached in periods – he is the author of the Neue Gedichte, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonette an Orpheus – as if the different phases of his work had little to do with one another, but in fact it is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the world. This book traces that trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected poems and the poems in French, as well as Rilke’s activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning, Mallarmé and Valéry among many others. These encounters were part of Rilke’s engagement with the world, his way of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself.

Chapter II: The Mechanistic Hypothesis

1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (S1) ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Richard Albert Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Organic World ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Past Life ◽  
As If

I have spoken of variations sometimes as if they were due to chance. This is a wholly incorrect expression; it merely serves to acknowledge plainly our ignorance of the cause of each particular variation.—DARWIN.Both the mechanistic and the organic hypotheses agree that in the world as it stands at present we find not only matter, but also life, mind, and purpose. The mechanistic hypothesis, however, as I understand it, holds that this earth was originally a purely inorganic world without life, mind, or purpose, governed by purely mechanical laws alone; and that at some point of time in the relatively recent past, life got started upon the surface of this mechanical world by some kind of ‘biological accident,’ and having got started in ‘one or more primordial forms’ it then set out on a course of evolution impelled by a strong reproductive impulse, presumably co-accidental with life itself; and with a strong tendency to reproduce or repeat the type, coupled with a lesser tendency to slight variations and an occasional tendency to a great variation, it gradually differentiated its ‘one or more primordial forms’ into many genera and species of life, each species or genus then moving forward towards greater and greater perfection under the operation of ‘natural selection,’ until we have the multi-variegated organic world as we find it to-day.

scholarly journals Akibat Hukum Atas Perjanjian Jual Beli Hak Atas Tanah Yang Mengandung Cacat Hukum

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
A. A. Sagung Poetri Paraniti ◽  
I Wayan Wiryawan
Keyword(s):  
Land Rights ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Legal Effect ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Ownership Rights ◽  
As If

Land for humans has a very important meaning for life itself and together with the community.The importance of land can be seen from the function of the land, namely as a place to stand, for houses,a place to make a living, as a place to worship the Creator and also a place to bury those who havedied. By paying attention to the function of such a large land, the longer it feels as if the land becomesnarrow, while the demand always increases, it is not surprising that the value of the land becomes high.From the importance of the land, it is very necessary to do a study of what is meant by the sale andpurchase agreement of land rights that contain legal defects? What efforts can be taken in resolvingthe sale and purchase of land rights that contain legal defects? This type of research uses legal researchin normative legal aspects that reviews current legislation in Indonesia in relation to the legalconsequences of land purchase and sale agreements that contain legal defects. For the answer all theseproblems, article 1425 of the Civil Code regulates the occurrence of buying and selling and the articlestates that the sale and purchase is deemed to have occurred between the two parties, immediatelyafterwards these people agreed on the material even though the price of the material had not beendelivered or the price not yet paid. With the sale and purchase of the land, it does not mean that the ownership rights in this case the ownership rights to the land have changed. Because the transfer ofownership rights to land needs to be followed by legal actions in the form of Yuridische levering so thatit does not cause legal defects. The legal effect of the land purchase agreement that contains legaldefects is that the seller returns the money from the sale of land to the buyer and the buyer returns thecertificate of land rights to the seller so that it can be canceled due to the seller's fault. Efforts that canbe taken in resolving the sale and purchase agreement on land containing legal defects can be resolvedeither by deliberation, peace or family and if this fails, the solution is through mediation, if it is notfinished, the legal remedies are the last resort.

Improvement of an artificial test substrate technique for evaluation of em immunocytochemical labeling

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 762-763
Author(s):  
G. D. Gagne ◽  
M. F. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Bovine Serum Albumin ◽  
Serum Albumin ◽  
Bovine Serum ◽  
Artificial Substrate ◽  
Chemical Fixation ◽  
As If

We recently described an artificial substrate system which could be used to optimize labeling parameters in EM immunocytochemistry (ICC). The system utilizes blocks of glutaraldehyde polymerized bovine serum albumin (BSA) into which an antigen is incorporated by a soaking procedure. The resulting antigen impregnated blocks can then be fixed and embedded as if they are pieces of tissue and the effects of fixation, embedding and other parameters on the ability of incorporated antigen to be immunocyto-chemically labeled can then be assessed. In developing this system further, we discovered that the BSA substrate can also be dried and then sectioned for immunolabeling with or without prior chemical fixation and without exposing the antigen to embedding reagents. The effects of fixation and embedding protocols can thus be evaluated separately.

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