Opinion: The Doctor Who Fooled The World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines by Brian Deer

In this paper, the author considers the enterprise of fasting, in which the man faces the important issues of his existence, the purpose and worldly life. The author is aware that all social, philosophical and theological phenomena are very complex, profound and obscure and quotes the French philosopher and scientist Pascal, who claimed: ?We do not possess enough knowledge to?understand the life of human body?While in nature everything is closely intertwined ? No part can be recognized unless we have studied the unit. The life of each body will be understood only when we learn all that it needs; and in order to achieve this, it is necessary to study the universe. But the universe is infinite and it is beyond the human ability to grasp it??It is clear from this quotation that we are facing many complex issues whenever we try to reveal one of the secrets of Christian life - the secret of fasting. The second part of the essay has to do with people and the time we live in, the relations between believing doctors and their profession and whether and to what extent a believing doctor who observes fasts is closer to the Truth and Goodness that the one who does not believe. The author argues that the doctor who is a believer and who observes a fast seeing it as the time when values of human life should be put to test and the meaning of medical profession reconsidered is closer to the truth of Existence and love of the world. There is no duty that is more important for a modern, egotistic, materialistic man than resuming fasts. A fast as a profound rethinking of the whole of a human being, as a human effort, as Solzhenitsyn would say, to self-restriction, abstinence, nurturing of his own freedom.

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Medical Training for Disaster Situations

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400006045 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 13 (145) ◽

pp. 182-188

Author(s):

J.-A. Baumann

Keyword(s):

Medical Training ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Hippocratic Oath ◽

Specific Aspect ◽

Doctor Who ◽

The World ◽

Patient Will ◽

The Difference ◽

And Training ◽

Do So

Medical practice in disaster relief has a very specific aspect as compared with medicine in general, but I must point out that the difference lies in its organization rather than in its therapeutic nature. A doctor who has before him a sick or wounded person, or any other patient, will unstintingly provide care according to the knowledge and training he received at medical school. He will do so in accordance with the code of ethics of his calling, inculcated by his throughout the world draw inspiration from the Hippocratic Oath, the Prayer of Maimonides or the Geneva Declaration. All of this has been accepted and need not enter the type of training which we are about to define. The same applies to nurses and to the doctor's specialized auxiliaries, who are adequately trained for their occupation, in similar yet differentiated fashion.

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A Possible Future Return to the Past

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2017.0206 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 59-73

Author(s):

Josh Rios

Keyword(s):

Time Travel ◽

Doctor Who ◽

Social Lives ◽

Real Effects ◽

The Past ◽

Counter Narratives ◽

Testing Ground ◽

The World ◽

Future Return ◽

Cultural Constructions

This text treats a specific Doctor Who storyline, The Aztecs (1964), as a catalyst for questioning Enlightenment-era notions of rationality, progress, and technologic advancement in relation to colonial constructions of non-European societies as static and futureless. Moreover, it looks at the role geography and travel (including time travel) have played in reifying Modernity as a series of traceable, enclosed steps leading from the primitive to the contemporary. To this end, postcolonial speculative fiction is formulated as a testing ground to interrogate past and current modes of imperialism, as well as explore various alternative pasts and futurities. Clearly, reconfigurations of erased histories and ethnic traumas are necessary to formulate counter-narratives against colonialist logics of repression; however, recuperative projects also need to be undertaken with the utmost criticality and self-reflexivity. The fiction of Chicanx cyberpunk writer Ernest Hogan serves to expose the fraught nature of reclaiming pre-colonial or Indigenous pasts. Lastly, this text supposes that representation and cultural constructions have real effects in the world. As such, symbols are never merely symbolic; they aid in the creation of both justifications for marginalization as well as powerful correctives capable of transforming our social spheres and social lives in potent ways.

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Challenges to the Modernist Identity of Psychiatry

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0011 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Pat Bracken ◽

Philip Thomas

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Mental Health System ◽

Service User ◽

Mental Distress ◽

Service Users ◽

Doctor Who ◽

The Gaze ◽

The Past ◽

The World

This chapter argues that the modernist agenda, currently dominant in mainstream psychiatry, serves as a disempowering force for service users. By structuring the world of mental health according to a technological logic, this agenda is usually seen as promoting a liberation from "myths" about mental illness that led to stigma and oppression in the past. However, it is argued that this approach systematically separates mental distress from background contextual issues and sidelines non-technological aspects of mental health such as relationships, values, and meanings. This move privileges the gaze of the expert doctor who is trained to understand distress in terms of psychopathology. But, as this move empowers the doctor, it disempowers the service user. In part this is because the priorities of modernist psychiatry are generally at odds with the interests and concerns of services users, particularly those who see themselves as survivors of the mental health system. The chapter examines the implications of this for the psychiatrist's role in working with survivors towards recovery.

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Pre-eminently precise

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1995.0016 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 168-170

Keyword(s):

Medical Doctor ◽

Scientific Instrument ◽

Doctor Who ◽

Instrument Making ◽

Instrument Maker ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Apparent Similarity

Anita McConnell, Instrument Makers to the World. A history of Cooke, Troughton, and Simms . University of York, William Sessions, York, 1992. Soft covers, 116 pp. £16.00. Eleanor Mennim, Transit Circle. The story of William Simms , 1793-1860. William Sessions, York, 1992. Soft covers. 302 pp. £9.50 It is unusual to find two books on such closely related subjects issued by the same publisher at virtually the same time. Yet both seem to have been funded independently of the publisher; Dr McConnell s excellent critical company history has been backed by Messrs Vickers of York, and Dr Mennim’s life of her ancestor, William Simms, by her own sponsors. One suspects, therefore, that William Sessions of York stand to be in pocket either way. In spite of their apparent similarity of theme and the fact that the eminent Victorian scientific instrument maker, William Simms, plays a starring role in both, they are none the less very different books. Anita M cConnell’s Instrument Makers to the World is clearly the work of a thorough-going professional scholar who traces the history of a scientific instrument- making firm through two and a half centuries down to its closure in 1988. Eleanor Mennim is a medical doctor who has produced a wandering and rather over-long biography of her great-great-grandfather without ever properly telling her readers what a Transit Circle actually is. Both books are quite independent creations with no collusion having taken place between the authors.

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Buchrezension zu: The Doctor Who Fooled the World

BIOspektrum ◽

10.1007/s12268-021-1557-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 336-336

Author(s):

Roland Seifert

Keyword(s):

Doctor Who ◽

The World

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Medical Analogies in Buddhist and Hellenistic Thought: Tranquillity and Anger

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement ◽

10.1017/s1358246109990221 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

pp. 11-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christopher W. Gowans

Keyword(s):

Medical Treatment ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Medical Science ◽

Well Being ◽

Doctor Who ◽

Mental Diseases ◽

The World ◽

Hellenistic Philosophy ◽

The Mind ◽

The Buddha

Medical analogies are commonly invoked in both Indian Buddhist dharma and Hellenistic philosophy. In the Pāli Canon, nirvana (or, in Pāli, nibbāna) is depicted as a form of health, and the Buddha is portrayed as a doctor who helps us attain it. Much later in the tradition, Śāntideva described the Buddha’s teaching as ‘the sole medicine for the ailments of the world, the mine of all success and happiness.’ Cicero expressed the view of many Hellenistic philosophers when he said that philosophy is ‘a medical science for the mind.’ He thought we should ‘hand ourselves over to philosophy, and let ourselves be healed.’ ‘For as long as these ills [of the mind] remain,’ he wrote, ‘we cannot attain to happiness.’ There are many different forms of medical analogy in these two traditions, but the most general form may be stated as follows: just as medicine cures bodily diseases and brings about physical health, so Buddhist dharma or Hellenistic philosophy cures mental diseases and brings about psychological health—where psychological health is understood as the highest form of happiness or well-being. Insofar as Buddhist dharma involves philosophy, as it does, both renditions of the analogy may be said to declare that philosophy cures mental diseases and brings about psychological health. This feature of the analogy—philosophy as analogous to medical treatment—has attracted considerable attention.

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Fans, Fezzes, and Freebies

Transatlantic Television Drama ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190663124.003.0016 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 257-272

Author(s):

Lincoln Geraghty

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

United Kingdom ◽

The United States ◽

Doctor Who ◽

American Industry ◽

International Media ◽

Media Companies ◽

Transatlantic Trade ◽

The World ◽

Trade Relationship

Following the reboot of Doctor Who and the popularity of Sherlock, the BBC has become a major exporter of quality television to the world. One sign of the success of UK television in the United States comes at the annual San Diego Comic-Con, where BBC America has made a concerted effort to build a loyal US audience. This chapter analyzes the importance of Comic-Con in the transnational circulation of British television texts within the American industry. Comic-Con provides a space for the promotion of UK television brands where American and British fans can meet, and where international media companies mingle with US conglomerates. There is a transatlantic trade relationship between the United States and United Kingdom; at Comic-Con, the BBC and its flagship series Doctor Who and Sherlock compete with networks such as CBS and HBO. Through the targeted promotion of British branding these series have become successful transnational commodities.

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