Staging the Twitter War: Toneelgroep Amsterdam's Roman Tragedies

The treatment of war wounds in Graeco-Roman antiquity

differences between such "technical terms" and everyday vocabulary. However, this general definition is modified to explain what should presently be understood under "medical Latin". Even if there are cultural and social differences between ancient and modem medical languages, "medical Latin" will be a term used to denote a "Fachsprache", i.e., a variety of language used by those with a special...

The Tragedy of Tragedies

Tragedies to Come

A book on the Mary Bell case acts, once again, as a depressing reminder that psychiatric facilities for children and adolescents are dangerously inadequate and that, until we devote enough resources and mobilise the right skills, further tragedies may still occur. Gitta Sereny's clear and readable book* will help many people, who had only the Press accounts to guide them, to make some sense of ...

Coping with Tragedies of the Commons

Contemporary policy analysis of the governance of common-pool resources is based on three core assumptions that (1) resource users are norm-free maximizers of immediate gains who will not cooperate to overcome the commons dilemmas they face, (2) designing rules to change incentives of participants is a relatively simple analytical task, and (3) organization itself requires central direction. Th...

Shakespeare's treatment of love : the mature tragedies