Sacred buildings out of necessity

Necessity of Modernization of Modern Buildings

Due to the environmental and economical processes of the world the architectural thinking is started to change radically in the last decades. The danger of the global warming and the climate change motivated us to revalue our activity and its impacts. The concept of sustainability came into being and its role became more and more important in the architecture. It isn‟t visible that the sustaina...

Values for sustainability: the necessity of transcendence and sacred realms

Medical necessity: making sense out of nonsense.

Series Editor's Note: Medical necessity, a concept that is hard to define and frequently misunderstood, has become critical to how health care is financed and delivered. Like most physicians, I believe that I have reasonable judgment as to what is medically necessary for my patients. I also understand that at times some of my patients have different ideas regarding what is necessary for their m...

Pasture Evidence - Based Practice Habits : Putting More Sacred Cows Out

[Baptism out of necessity--a medico-historiografic view].

Baptism of necessity of life-threatened newborns was proclaimed by church law and related midwifery regulations from the second half of the 16th century. Midwives were for centuries the only lay persons attending the pregnant woman, parturient woman and newborn, so they were obliged to baptize newborns with life-threatening conditions, which were rather common and associated with high mortality...