Fears, Apprehensions and Conjectures

Dealing with Futile Fears

بدون ترس شانس کمتری برای رسیدن به دوران تکاملی داریم. ترس منطقی به ما می گوید که از چه چیز پرهیز کنیم، به ما کمک می کند که با مشکلات روبرو شویم و ما را در مقابل خطرات حقبقی محافظت می کند. در طرف دیگر آن نوع ترس هائی که از مقوله ترسهای مرضی است، غیرمنطقی می باشد و آثار فیزیکی و روحی بی شماری را باعث می گردد.

Microchimerism: fears and hopes.

For those who are not used yet to this rather recent concept, microchimerism refers to the presence of very low numbers of allogeneic cells in an individual. Most interest in this phenomenon has been raised after the demonstration by the group of Diana Bianchi, a researcher working previously on prenatal diagnosis, that fetal cells – present in the peripheral blood of women during pregnancy – m...

Fictions, fantasies, and fears

The debate about cloning and genetic engineering, which began in 1997, has been strongly influenced by fictional narratives, scripts, and images. They in turn provided the seeds for the creation of various metaphors used in the debate, especially by the media. The flow of metaphors and images associated with cloning is now ebbing away and is being replaced by a new wave of images and metaphors ...

Fears and Phobias

only given a rough idea of their actual numbers in the general community. They can also cause tremendous distress and disability to people over many years. Nevertheless, there has been a tendency in the past to treat them mainly as medical curiosities and few probics benefited much from the attentions of doctors. Even recent editions of standard psychiatric textbooks have dealt very inadequatel...

Childhood Fears