No Ordinary Mainstream Illness

No ordinary time.

Sexuality in chronic illness: no longer ignored.

Even though many diseases and their treatments impair sexual function, medical publications often omit sexual issues. However, national probability samples and clinical studies from many countries confi rm that most men and women regard sexual wellbeing as centrally important. The majority of 480 men made paraplegic by spinal-cord injury confi rmed that regaining sexual function was their major...

Alcohol: no ordinary commodity--a summary of the second edition.

This article summarizes the contents of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity (2nd edn). The first part of the book describes why alcohol is not an ordinary commodity, and reviews epidemiological data that establish alcohol as a major contributor to the global burden of disease, disability and death in high-, middle- and low-income countries. This section also documents how international beer and spir...

Block Jacobi for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations: no ordinary Schwarz methods

For classical discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations, like conforming finite elements or finite differences, block Jacobi methods are equivalent to classical Schwarz methods with minimal overlap, see for example [4]. This is different when the linear system (1) is obtained using DG methods. Our paper is organized as follows: in section 2 we describe several DG methods for li...

Using artwork to understand the experience of mental illness: Mainstream artists and Outsider artists

OBJECTIVE Artwork and psychiatric disorders are often linked. Accomplished artists with psychiatric disorders express themselves and their emotional distress through their works, and art therapists use the visual arts to help clients understand their problems and cope with them. There have been a number of psychiatric patients with no previous art training who produced artwork that many conside...