New Conception of Epilepsy

Asthma: a new conception.

Of the relatively few emergency calls made upon you in practice, the call for treatment of the acute attack of asthma will be by far the most common. In fact with some patients the calls become so frequent and at such inconvenient moment that both the doctor and his patient begin to meet with ill grace. The late Wilfred Trotter in an address on emergencies said this: "In a certain sense of the ...

Pro-active pre-conception counselling in epilepsy— is it effective?

Development of epilepsy services in the northern region has included a baseline audit of the availability of pre-conceptual advice, AED prescribing, folic acid usage, vitamin K administration and pregnancy outcome in women with epilepsy which we now report. Patients, identified by community midwives, complete a standardized interview questionnaire with a research nurse. Delivery outcome is reco...

A New Conception of Legal Insanity

ions are not at all that different from the personifications of the fairy tale" (p. 75). Statements about crazy behavior that ascribe agency to intrapsychic entities such as "impulses" or "internal pressures" are homologous to statements that the insane are ruled by demons. The anthropomorphisms of the former mode of explanation are more subtle and use terms that sound mechanical and impersonal...

A New Conception of Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca

Total teacher effectiveness: new conception and improvement

Based on the traditional conception of teacher effectiveness, proposes three strategies for improving it: short-term, long-term and dynamic strategies. Argues that the dynamic strategy is preferable, but that all of them have strong limitations because they ignore the complexity of teacher effectiveness and narrow the concept to the individual teacher, particularly in a classroom context. Propo...