Standing At The Altar

Murine "model" monotheism: an iconoclast at the altar of mouse.

Critique of Novel/ The Reality at the Altar of Power: A review of Dear Mim as metafiction, Mahshad Shahbazi

As a type of writing originating in postmodernism, metafiction by breaking fictional frameworks and distorting boundaries of imagination and reality tries to reveal the artificial nature of reality and its constructedness in relation to the dominant power discourses. Thus, every playful chaos in the postmodern novel form stems from the depths of critical thinking in postmodernist skepticism abo...

Altar and Table: A phenomenology of the surgeon-priest

I will never forget the first night I stood alone beside the operating table as the only surgeon in the room. I was beginning my fourth year of residency. Two patients from the same car wreck arrived simultaneously. Both were unstable. Both required urgent laparotomy. The sickest patient went to OR 9 with the attending surgeon. The other patient went with me to OR 6. The preliminaries were the ...

Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters—Embassy—Speech from the Altar—Decree

HIPPOCRATES, Pseudepigraphic writings: Letters-Embassy-Speech from the AltarDecree, ed. and transl. with an Introduction by Wesley D. Smith, Studies in Ancient Medicine 2, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1990, pp. x, 133 (90-04-09290-0). In The Hippocratic Tradition (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979) Wesley D. Smith investigated the origin both of our image of Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, and of...

Free-standing graphene at atomic resolution.

Research interest in graphene, a two-dimensional crystal consisting of a single atomic plane of carbon atoms, has been driven by its extraordinary properties, including charge carriers that mimic ultra-relativistic elementary particles. Moreover, graphene exhibits ballistic electron transport on the submicrometre scale, even at room temperature, which has allowed the demonstration of graphene-b...