Psychiatry is the medical field that deals with mental illness. A womanwho finds herself depressed and anxious will seek help from a psychiatrist.A young man who hears voices when no one is present, speaks incoherentlyon occasion and declines all social invitations may likewise go to a psychia-trist, or be taken to one by his mother. The psychiatrist will interview theperson, order…
The application of rhetorical and narrative approaches to science have been used to analyze the discourse of popular culture and how it relates to complex social phenomena such as the proliferation of pseudoscience or antipsychiatry. The rhet-oric of science studies how scientists—as part of a discursive community—frame and communicate their knowledge; what they argue about and how…
There is a large and mostly unmet global need for affordable and efficacious wound care, despite modern-day medicine advancing at break-neck speed. Indeed, the tide of chronic wounds is rising. Modern lifestyle changes, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), bring a rapid rise in non-communicable disease including cardiovascular disease, o…
Movies like American Sniper and The Hurt Locker hint at the inner scars our soldiers incur during service in a war zone. The moral dimensions of their psychological injuries - guilt, shame, feeling responsible for doing wrong or being wronged - elude conventional treatment. Georgetown philosophy professor Nancy Sherman turns her focus to these moral injuries in Afterwar. She argues that psychol…
Our intention has been to translate the poems into plain and unadorned prose, staying as close to the original as modern English idiom will allow, in order to reveal what may loosely be termed the ‘literal’ sense of the text. Readers approaching these poems from an acquaintance with Chaucer’s works will already be aware that one of the chief difficulties of Middle English for the modern r…
Irian Jaya merupakan bagian yang sangat khusus dari bumi kita, yang mengandung kekayaan alam luar biasa makmurnya, dan terentang luas sekali melampaui cakrawala lingkungan yang masih murni. Irian Jaya merupakan hutan dataran rendah paling besar di seluruh Asia Tenggara yang masih belum terusik, yang mengandung pula kekayaan dan keanekaragaman kehidupan yang tidak ada taranya. Provinsi ini mer…