“Un-kinged himself”

Un petit cercle, un grand exemple (دایره‌ای کوچک، سرمشقی بزرگ )

نام هانری کربن با دو دایره گره خورده است: دایرة ارانوس و دایرة تهران؛ دایره‌هایی که مطابق منظر کربن، می‌توان آنها را به‌درستی رمزی و مثالی خواند. این مقاله به دایرة تهران اختصاص دارد، دایره‌ای تحقیقی که با حضور اندیشمندانی چند، و با محوریت دو شخصیت از شرق و غرب، علامه سید محمد حسین طباطبایی و هانری کربن، شکل می‌گرفت. برغم همه مشکلات فنی و فیزیکی ارتباط کلامی، این دو مرد، به خوبی با یکدیگر «مقاب...

A Physician in Spite of Himself

This text, published in late 2009, presents an excellent guide to herbal pharmacotherapies and is well laid out. Evidence is graded from A (Strong scientific), B (good), C (unclear or conflicting), through to D (fair negative). A series of chapters on relevant organs and diseases including Parkinson's disease, insomnia, and pain, are very comprehensive. Several diseases had some commendable and...

Self-Cannibalism: The Man Who Eats Himself

Self-mutilation is a general term for a variety of forms of intentional self-harm without the wish to die. Although there have been many reports of self-mutilation injuries in the literature, none have reported self-cannibalism after self-mutilation. In this article we present a patient with self-cannibalism following self-mutilation. A 34-year-old male patient was brought to the emergency depa...

[The physician in spite of himself].

Nurturing empathy: an oncologist looks at medicine and himself.