doing justice to Freud's text, to Schreber's text, and to a few others, less memorable, besides, Chabot baulks at the prospect of writing the history of the real, whether it be of psychoanalysis or of individual texts-all he allows psychoanalysis to aspire to is the narrative history of fiction, in place of the historical reconstruction of (psychic) reality. Reading as a literary critic does, r...

The paper presents the experience of a course (3D Graphics for Cultural Heritage) in the context of Humanistic Informatics degree. The goal of the course was to present an overview of the techniques for the acquisition of 3D models of real objects. The focus was put on freeware/open source solutions that could give the students the possibility to experiment directly on the data, and possibly ap...

BACKGROUND Patient support programs (PSPs), including medication management and counseling, have the potential to improve care in chronic disease states with complex therapies. Little is known about the program's effects on improving clinical, adherence, humanistic, and cost outcomes. PURPOSE To conduct a targeted review describing medical conditions in which PSPs have been implemented; suppo...

Anatomy remains one of the core courses of medical school, but the time devoted to it is decreasing. To accommodate the explosion of medical knowledge, educators search to streamline the curriculum. Because it is time-consuming, dissection comes under increased scrutiny. Even in the face of these pressures to reduce course hours, I would like to propose broadening, not reducing, the responsibil...

Daniel Lewis explores the importance of humanistic values to modern physicians This journal article is available in Momentum: http://repository.upenn.edu/momentum/vol1/iss2/6

since ‘the development of whole person’ was brought to the focus of attention by humanist psychologists as a central concern in educational theory, affective variables have been assumed to have a significant share in the learning process that goes on in a pedagogical setting. meanwhile, the process of second language development, because of the very nature of language as a vehicle for communica...

extract to separate patient from the others is uncomfortable for the patient and for the nurse . some of people see this as a punishment and consider little value for this. but some of people refer to uses and benefits and said:”almost no adverse and mental effects”.   of course, it is very difficult to determine the issues in isolation condition. this paper has offered some suggestions for tak...

In the era of the biological-psychological-social medicine model, an ideal of modern medicine is to enhance the humanities in medical education, to foster medical talents with humanistic spirit, and to promote the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit in medicine. Throughout the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), other Western countries, and some Asian countries like Japa...