Human beings and knowledge

Can human beings receive knowledge from non-human sources?

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

Ethics in research with human beings: from knowledge to practice.

BACKGROUND In Brazil, resolution 196/96 and its amendments regulate the preservation of rights, respect and dignity of human beings involved in research. OBJECTIVE To analyze the adequacy of Free Communications (FC) presented during the XVIII Congresso Pernambucano de Cardiologia to resolution 196/96. METHODS During a cross-sectional study, interviews were carried out with the authors of th...

BEINGS: Knowledge as Interacting Experts

Knowledge may be organized as a community of in t f iac t ing modules Each module is granted a complex st iucture, to simulate a particular expert in some small domain An extended analogy is drawn to a group of cooperating human specialists Based on this, an internal constraint is imposed on the modules Then structure must be standard over the entire community Some advantages of a un i fo rm fo...

Calcium orthophosphates and human beings

The historical development of a scientific knowledge on calcium orthophosphates from the 1770s until 1940 is described. Many forgotten and poorly known historical facts and approaches have been extracted from old publications and then they have been analyzed, systematized and reconsidered from the modern point of view. The chosen time scale starts with the earliest available studies of 1770s (t...