t to|ogy in this country, together with laryngology, began c? develop as a specialty in the middle of the 19th ^.entury under the influence of men 'like Yeansley and ?Vnbee, and later Sir Morel MacKenzie and Sir Felix erTion. They had a struggle to obtain recognition and ? 9reat German surgeon, Bilroth said of Otology calls for a certain amount of heroism in a man to J^rifice himself to this (t...

I wholeheartedly sympathize conceptually with Coeckelbergh's paper. The dialectical relationship between vulnerability and technology constitutes the core of Hegel's Master and Slave (the primal scene of contemporary philosophy). Yet, the empirical dimension is underdeveloped and Coeckelbergh's ideas could profit from exposure to case studies. Building on a movie/novel (Limitless) devoted to vu...

Four studies demonstrated that affective preferences persevere even if the cognition that gave rise to the affect is invalidated. In Study 1, participants learned associations between Chinese ideographs and their English meanings that were either positively or negatively valenced; subsequently, they were informed that these meanings were incorrect. Despite this cognitive invalidation, the affec...

There are about 100,000 people on the waiting list for a deceased donor– kidney transplant in the United States, a number that grows from year to year despite advances that have increased the availability of kidney transplantation. About 36,000 patients joined the waiting list in 2013, though only about 11,000 deceased donor transplants were performed, along with about 6000 transplants from liv...

Title:The perseverance time of informal carers for people with dementia: results of a two-year longitudinal follow-up study