S ome months ago, 33,000 feet over western North Carolina, I became acquainted with my seatmate on a trip to Texas, a 34-year­ old college graduate, bright, aniClI­ late, extremely well versed in his profession, the managemem of fund raising for nonprofit agencies and health institutions He is a devout Quaker and knows about our profes­ sion because of his work. What he did not know was the dir...

muḥyī al-dīn maghribī is among the few astronomers of the middle ages whose astronomical system is entirely based on new measures of planetary parameters and whose measurement of the observational data and calculation processes for determining their amount have been carried out in maragha observatory. he has explained the details of his observations and calculations in a volume called talkhīṣ a...

In this paper, I first address what medical students learn about appropriate (or tolerated) professional attitudes and emotions in the clinical context and how the performance of emotional positions that create distance between doctor and patient and the defining of patients as other is encouraged through the informal and hidden curricula. Next, I examine what we know about medical students’ em...

At the 2007 ECCA conference in London, Sir Anthony Bottoms presented three tribes of environmental criminology (what he called socio-spatial criminology). He proposed that a stronger theory could be created if there was greater collaboration between these tribes (particularly the rational choice/routine activities approach and the post-social disorganization approach). This article extends that...

The continuing paradigm shift in psychoanalysis focuses our attention more than ever on our subjectivity and the powerful impact it has on our selves and others. It compels us to examine more closely our subjectivity and the ways in which it shapes our self-experience, our countertransference, and our patients. It is especially crucial that we examine, however, how our attitudes about our subje...