S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

1Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon (Correspondence to W. Ammar: [email protected]). 2University of Balamand, El-Koura, Lebanon. Received: 07/03/06; accepted: 18/07/06 ABSTRACT The quality of hospital care in Lebanon has witnessed a paradigm shift since May 2000, from a traditional focus on physical structure and equipment to a broader multidimensional approach, emphasizing manage...

We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...

‘Heart Development and Regeneration’, edited by Nadia Rosenthal and Richard P. Harvey Published by Elsevier/Academic Press 3251 Riverport Lane, Maryland Heights, MO 63043, USA $199.95. ISBN 978-0-12-381332-9 (Set) Reviewed by Patrick P. L. Tam Embryology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute and Discipline of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia e-mail: ptam@cm...

A book embedding of a graph consists of a linear ordering of the vertices along a line in 3-space (the spine), and an assignment of edges to half-planes with the spine as boundary (the pages), so that edges assigned to the same page can be drawn on that page without crossings. Given a graph G= (V ,E), let f :V → N be a function such that 1 f (v) deg(v). We present a Las Vegas algorithm which pr...

Special Care and Treatment of Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders in New Zealand. Wellington. 1925. Is. A copy of this Report, to which we referred in our July issue, has now reached us from Wellington, through the courtesy of the Acting Director-General of Health. The Committee dealt separately with the two classes of persons named, as being not necessarily identical, and we only propose to...

Almost a century has elapsed since the Gestalt psychologists first emphasized the importance of internal organization processes to perception. The work of Gestaltists has had an enormous influence on perceptual psychology; largely through their compelling visual demonstrations which can be found in most textbooks on perception. However, Gestalt concepts such as Pragnanz, isomorphism, wholism, a...