Present day obstetrics

Maternal and fetal best interests in day-to-day obstetrics.

In medicine, it is the physician's obligation to promote and protect the patient's interest. In obstetrics, the ethical principles of beneficence and autonomy provide the fundamental framework which guides the management of all pregnant patients. As there is the need for consideration of the fetus, autonomy can become a complex issue giving rise to what is sometimes called "maternal-fetal confl...

The Present Day Treatment

In the last three or four years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified, and the introduction of insulin has enabled the general practitioner to treat diabetes with a considerable degree of success. Yet there still appears to exist some confusion as to the indications and contraindications for certain well established therapeutic measures in the management of diabetes. It is the p...

Present-day Psychology

PRESENT-DAY PSYCHOLOGY. A. A. Roback, Editor, with the collaboration of forty experts in the variouis fields. New York, Philosophical Library. 1955. xiv, 995 pp. $12.00. In this volume an attempt is made to survey the entire field of contemporary psychology, incltudinig not only the traditional topics of academlic psychological interest, such as perception, cognition, attention, emotionl, etc.,...

Present-day Cluster Formation

A review is presented of some of the observed features of cluster formation in our Galaxy and in external galaxies. Evidence is summarized suggesting that star clusters form only in the densest parts of large star-forming complexes, and that the molecular clumps in which they form are compressed in part by the effects of earlier star formation. The formation of massive globular-like clusters ap...

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