The authors summarize personal, intellectual, and social influences on Campbell Perry's (1937-2003) life and research on hypnosis. His education in Australia reflected the influences of a public primary school, a prestigious private high school, and undergraduate and graduate work at Australia's oldest university. His approach to hypnosis was influenced initially by Gordon Hammer and Philip Sut...

jabra ibrahim jabra, one of the most prolific arab authors, has enriched the arabic library and the mind of his audience by first functioning as a link in a rich chain of past cultural, artistic, and literary heritage; and second by reflecting the modern arab intellectual's classical mindset. he has a multifaceted career as a short story writer, novelist, critic, poet, playwright, and pain...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that by exploring the intellectual structure of activity-based costing (ABC) based on the citation database of Google Scholar, one can understand the evolution and core ideas of the ABC discipline. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs the document co-citation method to model the intellectual structure of ABC between 1988 and 2008. After...

A complete history of brachial plexus surgery could not be written without the inclusion of Algimantas Narakas. Not only did he define the fundamentals, he also imagined its future development. This year, 2013, marks the 20 anniversary of his death. However, the Narakas Club, which bears his name, continues to keep his heritage very much alive. Algimantas Otanas Narakas was born on March 23, 19...

The general practitioner working in his consulting room or his patient's home has a strictly limited range of diagnostic facilities available to supplement his clinical skills and experience. As long ago as 1946 the Annual Representative Meeting of the British Medical Association recommended that wherever possible, hospital departments of pathology and radiology should give direct access facili...

AIM To investigate the factors predicting adolescent visits to practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). METHODS A longitudinal cohort study conducted in an adolescent total population in Central Norway (The Nord-Trøndelag Health Studies (HUNT)). In Young-HUNT 1, all inhabitants aged 13 to 19 years (N = 8944, 89% response rate) were invited to participate, and the younges...

present and traces, somewhat tediously at times, the struggle of the medical profession in Victoria to control the supply of doctors, divisions within its ranks and competition from without the alternative practitioner (chemists, homoeopaths and opticians), Friendly Societies, and various attempts by the government to establish a national health scheme. Instrumental in the favourable outcome of...

Objective: Fragile X syndrome is the second etiology for inherited mental retardation. It may concomitant with other psychiatric disorders. Intellectual disability (ID) is a state of functioning that typically begins in childhood and is characterized by limitations in intelligence and adaptive skills. We intend to introduce a male young patient with Fragile X syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive d...

humanist science of man", and seventy pages to translations from Bastian's work-the bibliography of which ran to over sixteen printed pages ten years before he stopped writing. One does indeed come away from Koepping's presentation with a sense of what Bastian's anti-Darwinian "evolutionism" was about, as well as an appreciation of the varied influences mention only the more important). And if ...