Art: Egon Schiele: the Radical Nude

Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik

During their common time in Austria (and Germany), Fritz Heider and Egon Brunswik knew each other quite well, meeting for professional interchange of their ideas and thoughts, which they mutually highly respected (compare the late autobiography by Heider, 1983). They both worked on problems of how the human being copes with his environment; later on (in the early 50s), they both were regarded a...

Nursing and the art of radical critique.

This paper argues that more critique is required in our nursing journals. I begin by distinguishing between conservative 'old' critique which functions to maintain the status quo in the academic discipline of nursing, and radical 'new' critique which challenges it and pushes at its boundaries. I then identify three reasons why I believe so little radical critique is published in nursing journal...

Abdominal Radical Trachelectomy (ART) with MRI guidance: A state-of-the ART approach

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Egon R. Diczfalusy, the discovery of the fetoplacental unit and much more.

Fetal endocrinology is today recognized as a special branch of reproductive endocrinology, a subspecialty that has existed since the days when Egon Diczfalusy, some 50 years ago, started investigating the complex hormonal exchanges that take place between the maternal and fetal organism via the placenta. The father of this discipline turned 90 years a few months ago, and the occasion was celebr...