Emergency Medicine in the fourth decade: Angry young man or mid-life crisis?

Ageing male syndrome, andropause, androgen decline or mid-life crisis?

Reports of a “male menopause” have been appearing in the literature since the 1930s [1] [2] . The Heller and Myers paper of 1944 was seen by some as a ’landmark paper where symptoms of age-related low testosterone were shown to be reversed by testosterone replacement, but not by placebo [3] . The “male menopause” has been referred to as the andropause, viropause and the male climacteric [1] [4]...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Janice MacKinnon MEDICARE ’ S MID - LIFE CRISIS

The State of Election Studies: Mid-Life Crisis or New Youth?

In a number of countries Michigan style national election studies have now been conducted for around 40 years or more. Given their relative inattention to context and difficulties in disentangling cause and effect it might be considered time for radical change to or even abandonment of such studies. However the longevity of the studies coupled with a growing programme of comparative research me...

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...