History of medicine is an extensive and very complex science. In a simple and classical understanding, it has an informative and associative role. Although it is not easy for students to understand the multiple implications of the history of medicine, its importance becomes more evident during their academic formation. The students must be persuaded particularly about the ethical and cultural v...

Design is a cultural paradigm, alternative to tradition which is no longer functional. The transition to design, however, will not develop in the traditional way; it must be designed. Information design (creation and use of information which suits the design paradigm) is identified as the key step in this transition. The Polyscopic Modeling information design methodology is proposed as a protot...

In Celje, the first pharmacist is mentioned as early as 1578, among the first cities in Styria. In the 16th century, provincial classes hired and paid for the so-called provincial pharmacists and also monitored their work. Until the 19th century, pharmacists were considered tradesmen, then the public character of the profession changed: a court decree from 1820 required university education in ...

This article argues that Vygotsky’s choice of word meaning as the basic unit of analysis for cultural psychology connects him to a German psycholinguistic tradition—exemplified in the work of G. W. F. Hegel and J. G. Herder—distinct from the Marxist tradition. While later commentators criticize Vygotsky’s reliance on word meaning, arguing that it cannot explain the formation of consciousness, t...

To TALK of Thomas Linacre and John Caius together iti the same paper is almost like commending a saint and a sinner in the same sermon. Linacre is universally praised by his contemporaries and by modem scholars alike, while Caius in his writings and in his daily relationships seems petulant and domineering, with a dislike of Welshmen, whom he excluded from his refounded College along with the b...

Computer Graphics (CG) and Virtual Reality (VR) are two of the most interesting research fields in Computer Science. In this paper we present an application of CG and VR in arts, tourist promotion and cultural heritage. We propose a technique able to simulate the Saint Mary of the Mount staircase, a magnificent staircase in Caltagirone, a beautiful baroque town in Sicily (Italy). Our system is ...

This paper considers Thomas Beddoes’s role in disseminating German psychological ideas in Britain. It describes the German tradition as inaugurated by Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93) and considers the chief differences between this tradition and the English one stemming from David Hartley. It is suggested that Beddoes found strong support for his convictions about human interiority in writings by...

In most cases, determining payer readiness for an ICD-10 transition involves traditional system testing. The results of this strategy, however, do not completely reflect the widespread impact of ICD-10 on a payer’s business operations. A nontraditional testing approach is also required to understand and address ICD-10’s comprehensive effects on a healthcare organization’s people, processes, par...

The traditional culture of play and movement in West Africa offers obvious possibilities for an original “alternative” culture. But this culture, which in reality no longer exists in the primary sense of the word, is still too often observed in a selective and unverified manner, should not be overestimated ; still less should it be opposed in a critical way to the modern concept of sport and it...

During the early 1990’s, in the early days of the worldwide competition policy boom, Spencer Waller and Joshua Newberg argued that difficulties inherent in grafting common law concepts---such as antitrust---onto non common law traditions would undermine the administration of competition law in non common law tradition countries. Recent independent survey data on the performance of competition p...