Remembering Eugene Wigner and pondering his legacy

Eugene Paul Wigner 1902--1995

Remembering the legacy of Dale E.. Brashers and his contributions to health communication.

On July 5, 2010, Dale E. Brashers, head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and key figure in the field of health communication, passed away in his university office. He was 50 years old. The impact of this loss is still expanding, rippling through the field and the vast network of people who knew him as colleague, mentor, or friend. For some, his...

Comparing Eugene P . Wigner , Raymond Duval and Richard

Inspired by some basic formal aspects of standard model of fundamental physics, in this paper, putting into comparison the Eugene Wigner’s theoretical definition of elementary particle with some aspects of the semiotic theory according to Raymond Duval, it will be possible to lay out the former into the latter theory which will get a further epistemological foundation also on the basis of the e...

Remembering a Man and His Book

Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy

studies, that "illness" as well as "disease" should be understood, and this within a holistic perspective of all the forms of therapy available within the "health care system" of a culture. Yet the empirical research embodied in this book is fascinating and important. Over the better part of a decade, Dr. Kleinman did field-work in Taiwan, investigating, from the point of view of the patient as...