El espacio dramático de Michel Tremblay, “tesoro nacional” Quebec, está poblado por personajes que se enfrentan casi siempre a la alienación y al deseo encontrar, o incluso crear, su propia identidad. Los héroes tremblayanos, cualquier sea orientación sexual posición en sociedad, realizan un paso desde inactividad hasta acción para desgajarse del orden preestablecido. A veces incapaces cambiar ...

Sir Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, ed. by GEOFFREY KEYNES, London, Faber & Faber, 1968, pp. 416, illus., 50s. Sir Thomas Browne and Sir Geoffrey Keynes have this in common, that both were and are devoted to medicine and literature. However, Sir Geoffrey would seem to have the edge on Sir Thomas in that he is distinguished in both, whereas Sir Thomas's medical contributions were of no great i...

IN the medical pantheon, section of psychiatry, John Haslam (1764-1844) occupies only a small niche. He is represented there under two headings: one flattering, the other discreditable. As a forerunner of attempts to correlate brain pathology with mental disease general paresis of the insane, or paralytic dementia, in particular he qualifies as a minor hero; as a callous practitioner of the ins...

We study the expansion of stable structures by adding predicates for arbitrary subsets. Generalizing work of Poizat-Bouscaren on the one hand and Baldwin-BenediktCasanovas-Ziegler on the other we provide a sufficient condition (Theorem 4.7) for such an expansion to be stable. This generalization weakens the original definitions in two ways: dealing with arbitrary subsets rather than just submod...