Liturgical re-enactments and the Reformation

The evocative power of enactments.

The inevitability of analytic enactments, defined as symbolic interactions between patient and analyst, is discussed. Clinical material from the psychoanalysis of a latency-age child is presented to illustrate the role of enactments and to demonstrate their usefulness in furthering the analytic work.

Medicine and the Reformation

The historiography of science is now unthinkable without a keen awareness of the interactions between science and religion. Shelves of books and countless articles have been and continue to be written about the relationship between these two great pretenders to supreme knowledge. In general, earlier suggestions that science and religion were completely inimical to one another, irreconcilable ri...

The Project Multiple: Enactments of systems development

This article analyzes how a pilot implementation of a maternity care record was approached very differently by potential users. It is argued that conceptualizing the ways in which the new IT system was approached as: (1) ritual, (2) controlled experiment, and (3) learning process, highlights differences in what it meant for participants to be part of the implementation. This is comparable to pa...

Codex Angelicus 123 as a Liturgical Manuscript

The reformation of sports medicine.

O n October 31, 1517, Martin Luther protested the role of the church in society by posting his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. These theses were widely disseminated and led to a reformation in religious practice that echoes to this day. Currently, we are at a crossroad of sport and exercise medicine (SEM) as a specialty. There are many threats to its viability and an i...