Building an Outward-Oriented Social Family Legacy: Rhetorical History in Family Business Foundations

A family physician's legacy.

More than a year ago, 39-year-old family physician Dr. Mitch Cohen died unexpectedly. He was a devoted family man, a marathon runner, and a skilled family physician with a passion for rural medicine. I was a resident at the time and had been hoping to become one of his partners. In a way, I am. Working at Dr. Cohen’s rural clinic for more than a year now, I see his patients every day and have w...

The Social History of the American Family: An Encyclopedia

The family in history

an intellectual giant; quite possibly he was not. It does not alter the fact that several very astute successors have been standing on his shoulders, including Pasteur who in 1881, at the height of his career, had no qualms at all about acknowledging his debt to Jenner. Paradoxically the present volume leaves a reader who had no illusions about Jenner-as nobody who has read for example Dixon's ...

Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screen.

BACKGROUND Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies. METHODS The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a gro...

Foundations of Aspect Oriented Business Process Management

Reducing complexity in Information Systems is a main concern in both research and industry. One strategy for reducing complexity is separation of concerns. This strategy advocates separating various concerns, like security and privacy, from the main concern. It results in less complex, easily maintainable, and more reusable Information Systems. Separation of concerns is addressed through the As...