Since people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses experience distress in many domains, effective care in this context often requires a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach. Palliative care is now broadly recognized as an essential treatment model in this scenario. As exemplified by the case vignette, as well as by the description in the epigraph of Ivan Ilych’s “mental sufferings,”...

357 June 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6 SAMJ Feline companions and demography To the Editor: In A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, the author goes to visit Gertrude Stein and, sitting downstairs, hears from above the following by Ms Stein: ‘Don’t, pussy. Don’t. Don’t, please don’t. I’ll do everything, pussy, pussy, but please don’t do it. Please don’t. Please don’t, pussy.’ Hemingway immediately leav...

in 1971 in the Archivio Italiano di Otologia, a first original study was published entitled “l’Anastomosi tra i due nervi Faciali”. This article was followed by a second in 1973 and by a third (in the same journal) in 1975. These contributions were signed by louis Scaramella: he continued to persevere with his research on the same topic, publishing again in 1984 and 1996. The method of cross-fa...

How can a single PC check a herd of supercomputers with unreliable software and untested hardware? This classic problem is particularly relevant today, as much computation is now outsourced: it is performed by machines that are rented, remote, or both. For example, service providers (SPs) now offer storage, computation, managed desktops, and more. As a result, relatively weak devices (phones, t...

Few topics in Arendt's corpus have garnered more attention than her analysis of the dangers inherent Adolf Eichmann's inability to think. Eichmann revealed what Arendt describes as banality evil, a new kind evil born not monstrous or demonic motives but thoughtlessness (Arendt, 2006, p. 54).11 Hereafter EJ. Yet, while made clear urgent need we think, scholars remain at odds whether succeeds dem...

This article discusses the relationship between certain institutional regulations of voting rights and elections, different levels of electoral participation, and the degree of political instability in several Latin American political experiences. A formal model specifies the hypotheses that sudden enlargements of the electorate may provoke high levels of political instability, especially under...

J. L. Mackie argued that if there were objective moral properties or facts, then the supervenience relation linking the nonmoral to the moral would be metaphysically queer. Moral realists reply that objective supervenience relations are ubiquitous according to contemporary versions of metaphysical naturalism and, hence, that there is nothing especially queer about moral supervenience. In this p...

The unit of the chapter – so fundamental to nineteenth-century prose narrative, yet so thoroughly ignored in accounts of the form of novels – is fundamental to Anthony Trollope’s work. The chapter stems from the textual practices of antiquity and of medieval biblical transmission, ultimately finding a home in the novel form. Chapters are key to Trollope’s understanding of readerly experience, i...

Income bonds should be used more extensively by corporations than they are. Their avoidance apparently arises from a mere accident of economic history–namely, that were first employed in quantity connection with railroad reorganizations, and hence have been associated the start financial weakness poor investment status. But form itself has several practical advantages… Chief among these is dedu...