Inauguration Ceremony Address

Poiseuille Gold Medal Award ceremony. Presentation address.

Mr. Chairman, Members of our Society and of this Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a great privilege and gives me pleasure as the last recipient of the Poiseuille Gold Medal Award to give you a brief account of the scientific activities and contributions of the person whom The International Society of Biorheology has chosen to honor at this our Congress at The Weizmann Institute of Science h...

Keynote address at the opening ceremony for the centennial of the Pan American Health Organization.

Human Services [of the United States of America], especially the Office of the Surgeon General. If September 11 and its aftermath represented mankind at its worst— and it did—then today begins a celebration of mankind at its best. September 11 represents wanton destruction of human life without regard for innocence or person; PAHO [Pan American Health Organization] represents a commitment to en...

Secret Ceremony

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...