Just doing it: enjoying commodity fetishism with Lacan

Imaging of parathyroid lesions with radionuclides - Is it worth doing?

Parathyroid adenomas, or hyperplasia may be present in patients with hypercalcemia. Treatment Is by surgical excision, but about 10% of the lesions may be In ectopic locations. Pre-operative localization of the lesions with non-lvasive imaging, using radionuclides, ultrasound, CT, or MR], may simplify surgery, and reduce patient morbidity. However, the reports of the accuracy of the curre...

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Marxism and Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Colonial Identity: Parallels between Racial and Commodity-Based Fetishism

Despite Frantz Fanon’s and Karl Marx’s shared goal of the emancipation of all human beings from oppression, Fanon maintains in his final book, The Wretched of the Earth, that the connection between his theory of colonial identity and Marxist ideology cannot be reduced to a superficial doctrine of class struggles. Though Fanon resisted an oversimplified comparison with Marxist theory, this paper...

TDX doing it together

The Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA) have built and maintained the TDX server (TDX: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa Networked Doctoral Theses), which now hosts around 1,000 e-doctoral theses. The theses belong to 10 different universities from the Catalan context. The National Library of Catalonia also participates in the project, ...