DARWIN’S LITTLE KNOWN DISCUSSION OF SYMPATHY reveals a facet of his thinking unknown to many, which is contrary to the competitive, ruthless, and selfish view of human nature that has been mistakenly attributed to a Darwinian perspective. In 1871, 11 years before his death, Darwin’s greatest unread book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, was published. In the fourth chapter,...

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 18 9 From the Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. †Deceased. *Primary authorship is as follows: In part 1, Drs. Fordtran and Merrick wrote about events prior to 1957. Dr. Kitchens wrote about Dr. Tompsett’s tenure as chief, and Dr. Armstrong wrote about Dr. Fordtran’s tenure as chief. In part 2 (to be published in an upcoming issue...

1657 of-life conversations should be treated like any other competency, such as placing a central line or choosing appropriate antibiotics for pneumonia. An attending physician should model the skill, then watch trainees and offer feedback. Prognostication should similarly become a required skill. For instance, every initial admission of a seriously ill patient should include an assessment of p...

1657 of-life conversations should be treated like any other competency, such as placing a central line or choosing appropriate antibiotics for pneumonia. An attending physician should model the skill, then watch trainees and offer feedback. Prognostication should similarly become a required skill. For instance, every initial admission of a seriously ill patient should include an assessment of p...

It goes without saying that mathematicians have minds — my two universityeducated daughters may disagree with that, but of course we know better. So why write a book about the mind of mathematicians? Well the first point to note is that one of the authors, Ioan James, is a mathematician — naturally. He may be known to some as he is the editor of the Topology journal. The second author, Michael ...

I discuss the problem of realizing families of complex orientable homology theories as families of E ∞-ring spectra, including a recent result of Jacob Lurie emphasizing the role of p-divisible groups. A few years ago, I wrote a paper [10] discussing a realization problem for families of Landweber exact spectra. Since Jacob Lurie [27] now has a major positive result in this direction, it seems ...

concerning the article on ”cataract surgery in albucasis manuscript” pages 75-76 which is published in this issue of iranian journal of ophthalmology (irjo) a few points took my attention worth mentioning.     the science of ophthalmology and cataract surgery was developed 6,000 years ago, not in egypt but at mesopotamian region. the babylonians mastered this science 2,000 years before the glor...

*Professor of Medicine, T.N. Medical College (Retd.), Hon. Physician, Bhatia Hospital, Mumbai; **Consultant Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri (West), Mumbai D Schweitzer was a French-German scholar, born in Kaysersberg, Alsace; a s ickly chi ld , in contrast to h is la ter extraordinary robustness. Without doubt, he was a great and multiface...