Defining Illness, Impediment, and Inspiration

Defining Inspiration? Modelling non-conscious creative process

What composers do The title of this collection, ‘The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process’, might be taken to carry with it some suppositions about the nature of possible answers to the questions it implies. The purpose of this chapter is to deconstruct some aspects of those suppositions and to tease apart the tangled and inscrutable network of happenings that constitute ...

Defining Mental Illness: Collectivist versus Individualist Approaches

Penicillium marneffei infection: an AIDS-defining illness.

A 29-year-old HIV seropositive male patient from Manipur presented with fever, cough, weight loss and asymptomatic papules and nodules all over the body. Differential diagnoses of secondary syphilis, histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis and penicilliosis were considered. Histopathological and mycological study of the skin biopsy tissue, and blood culture confirmed the diagnosis of penicilliosis. Alth...

Defining the illness trajectory of metastatic breast cancer

BACKGROUND With significant developments in the management of metastatic breast cancer, the trajectory of progressive breast cancer is becoming increasingly complex with little understanding of the illness course experienced by women, or their ongoing problems and needs. AIM This study set out to systematically explore the illness trajectory of metastatic breast cancer using models from chron...

Penicillium Marneffei - Aids Defining Illness Penicillium Marneffei – Aids, Definicja Choroby

Background: Penicillium marneffei infection is the emerging fungal infection in the present day global scenario of HIV pandemic. P. marneffei is a dimorphic fungi with mycelial growth at 37C. Suspicion of P.marneffei infection arises when a immunocompromised individuals especially HIV positive persons present with Molluscum contagiosum like skin lesions. But pulmonary manifestations are not cha...