Family reflections: prematurity

[Dependence and the caring family: reflections for a family approach].

Ageing and dependence, which are closely interrelated, are currently challenging the "family potential for care" and posing the dilemma of whether the family can provide an answer to these new situations where assistance is called for. Elderly dependants have long-term care needs, which are sometimes of great complexity. In order to correctly carry out this care it is necessary to have the nece...

Human cloning and the family: reflections on cloning existing children.

Patient reflections: saying good-bye to a retiring family doctor.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe the doctor-patient relationship as expressed in written comments to a retiring family physician. METHODS All 200 of the written notes and e-mails to a single family physician retiring after 42 years in practice were examined using content analysis for general themes and meaning. No phone or personal verbal responses were included. RESULTS Se...

Reflections on Primary Health Care and Family Medicine in Botswana

Copyright: © 2014. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Primary Care should be the ‘central function and main focus of a country’s health system‘.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Ca...

Unended Reflections on Family Resemblance and Predicates Linguistic Migration

This paper takes into account the Wittgenstein’s idea of family resemblance as a particular crisp relation between some fuzzy sets, that is, between some representations of predicates use from its use. It is shown that all uses of the same predicate actually do have some kind of family resemblance, that some pairs of predicates cannot, and how the predicates migration between different universe...