'ONLY those of us, Mr. President, who have had the good fortune to hold the distinguished position which, by your kind grace, Sir, I hold today, only those who have delivered the Oslerian oration, can appreciate the extraordinary difficulties besetting a subject, every aspect of which has been considered, very often too, by men who have brought to the task a combination of learning and literary...

For the last few years, gold salts have been used extensively for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, but their high price has placed them well beyond the means of the average patient. It is a common experience to find poor patients exhausting their resources on a few tentative doses of gold preparation, much too small to produce any tangible result, and then giving up treatment in despair...

OBJECTIVE This research describes the process of building a tool which allows assessment of resistance to treatment and its intensity among patients with diabetes. METHODS This study was undertaken in Maccabi Health care Services a preferred provider health care organization. This is a multistage study using both qualitative and quantitative methods. A semi-structured interview using 14 key q...

This paper reports on the complex representations of sperm providers in the narratives of donors, recipients and offspring involved in donor-assisted conception. Eighty-seven volunteers from Australia, Canada, UK, USA and Argentina participated in qualitative narrative research. Sperm provision was perceived to be publicly represented as sexualized, provoking both disgust and hilarity; this is ...

This study sought to replicate previous findings of vivid suicide-related imagery in previously suicidal patients in a community sample of adults with a history of depression. Twenty-seven participants were interviewed regarding suicidal imagery. Seventeen participants reported prior suicidal ideation or behaviour in the clinical assessment, and the vast majority of these also reported experien...

Current difficulties in achieving intersubjective agreement in linguistics require attention to principles of methodology which consider sources of error and ways to eliminate them. The methodological assumptions and practices of various branches of linguistics are considered from the standpoint of the types of data gathered: texts, elicitations, intuitions and observations. Observations of the...

As presented in other chapters contained within this book, emotions, and particularly their social aspects, have a vast infl uence on people’s attitudes, motivations, and behaviors in almost every domain of life. Yet, in some domains emotions operate merely peripherally and at times even as negligible psychological forces. In other domains, however, and under specifi c circumstances, collective...

OBJECTIVE Based on the present authors' research and several approaches to grief related to loss by death and nonmalignant chronic pain, the paper suggests a new integrated theoretical framework for intervention in clinical settings. METHODS An open qualitative review of the literature on grief theories was performed searching for a new integrated approach in the phenomenological tradition. W...

Chronic pain is a state of physical suffering strongly associated with feelings of anxiety, depression and despair. Disease pathophysiology, psychological state, and social milieu can influence chronic pain, but can be difficult to diagnose based solely on clinical presentation. Here, we review brain neuroimaging research that is shaping our understanding of pain mechanisms, and consider how su...

The year 1780 brought the darkest hours of America's struggle for independence. Whatever advantage the Colonists gained by the defeat of Burgoyne in 1777 was lost in two years of inactivity and minor defeat, and one event after another made it appear that Lord George Germaine would be successful in his tiring-out policy. Rochambeau's legion, whose coming had briefly revived the Ameri-can hopes,...