The villain with a thousand faces

The Thousand Faces of Nanotubes

The hero with a thousand faces visits the doctor.

Storytelling is fundamental to how people think about and understand their lives, and the use of stories in family medicine is no exception. As healers, we tell our stories in ways that make sense to us. But of course our patients tell their own stories, and we cannot understand the physician-patient interaction without understanding their narratives of our encounters. Joseph Campbell, the famo...

New insights to the many aspects of asthma: “A disease of a thousand faces” Lon Chaney (1883–1930): The Man of a Thousand Faces

New insights to the many aspects of asthma: " A disease of a thousand faces " Lon Chaney (1883–1930): The Man of a Thousand Faces L eonidas Frank " Lon " Chaney, American stage and film actor, director, and screenwriter is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of the early silent film era, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characte...

The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folk Tale Protagonists

Literary scholars and psychologists have long remarked striking similarities in the depiction of male heroes in the world's folk tale traditions. The best-known attempt to document and explain these similarities is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1936). Campbell's work differs in detail from other prominent attempts to define universal features of heroes, however its grand the...

Atypical Manifestation of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Disease With a Thousand Faces

CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Tae Hoon Oh, MD, PhD Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Intern...