Lycanthropy is an unusual belief or delusion in which the patient thinks that he/she has been transformed into an animal. In rare cases, the patient believes that another person has been transformed into an animal. In this case report, a patient who had an uncommon variant of lycanthropy is introduced. The patient’s symptoms had appeared after consumption of ecstasy. This shows the occurrence o...

Health Canada has followed the US government’s lead and issued an advisory on the potential danger of morcellators, tools used primarily in gynecological laparoscopic surgery. However, there is disagreement in Canada over whether an advisory is necessary. Morcellators are used in laparoscopic surgery to grind up the uterine tissue or fibroids so they can be removed through tiny 1.5 cm incisions...

Philosophical analyses may be pursued via a myriad of methods in service of as great a multitude of goals. Frequently the data upon which an analysis rests, and from which it receives its original inspiration, recount systematic connections between diverse realms of discourse or diverse sets of facts, events, actions, or objects. The aim of the project is elucidating the underlying logical, con...

Wouldn't it be easier if we lived in a binary world? Everything would be either black or white, yes or no, 1 or 0. And biopsy results would be either normal or cancer. Unfortunately, in the world of cancer, our efforts to detect the disease early have made this a fantasy. We are increasingly faced with the reality of a big gray zone — a broad spectrum of pathologic fi ndings between normal tiss...

Aage Sørensen, in “Toward a Sounder Basis for Class Analysis,” argues that Marxists are correct in placing exploitation at the center of class analysis since an exploitation-centered concept of class has a much greater potential for explaining the structural foundations of social conflicts over inequality than does its principle rival, the material “life conditions” conception of class. But he ...

in this article, the author deals with the critical study of rorty and gadamer's doctrines on truth through analyzing its undesirable epistemological and political consequences. rorty denies truth and believes that it is merely the indicator of sentences specification. but gadamer does not deny truth and believes it is as event of appearance which flourishes from within the dialogue and ma...

the respected author believes that true faith is actually a logical assertion of faith [within] or entrenched certainty towards the objects of faith. naturally this logical assertion can only be considered as faith while it doesn’t accompany denial of the objects of faith. he believes that the freedom to choose faith is related to the freedom to choose when faith first comes about and whether i...

Dr. West reviews the state of knowledge and the incidence of crime in young people, including its aetiology and treatment. He doubts whether there is any real increase of recidivism beyond that which is due to the increase of population. He believes that the majority of young offenders are not very different from groups of non-convicted, self-admitted delinquents. Much of it appears to be situa...