This patient was a lady in her 50s who had previously been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and rectal cancer. She had undergone neo-adjuvant chemotherapy designed to shrink the tumour before it was removed surgically. However, the cancer responded better than expected to the chemotherapy, and the oncologists could no longer find evidence of active cancer within the patient. The oncologist ha...

As a profession, speech-language pathology appears to have become interested in reflection and reflective practice as important components of clinical practice and education. however, little systematic consideration of the potential value of reflective practice within the field has been undertaken. the purpose of this paper seeks to consider how reflective practice is relevant to contemporary s...

In this paper I deal with a neglected topic with respect to unification in Newton s Principia. I will clarify Newton s notion (as can be found in Newton s utterances on unification) and practice of unification (its actual occurrence in his scientific work). In order to do so, I will use the recent theories on unification as tools of analysis (Kitcher, Salmon and Schurz). I will argue, after sho...

Nowadays, we find the idea of a miasma old-fashioned but it was widely used in Hahnemann’s time. Diseases that were thought to be caused by miasma included cholera, dysentery, leprosy, malaria (which literally means “bad air”), bubonic plague, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Miasma was understood to be “a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere” – the “contamination” or “polluti...

S upraventricular tachyarrhythmias are commonly encountered in clinical practice. Clinical consequences of these tachyarrhythmias range from insignificant to life-threatening. Management consists of acute termination of an episode of tachyarrhythmia and, in certain patients, is followed by chronic prophylaxis against future recurrence. Recent advances in the understanding of clinical cardiac el...