"To be human, means to be at play" (C.G. Jung). The democratisation of the east european societies caused an important development in the health system of these countries and in particular of mental health. Within the medicine itself, psychiatry as a special branch of it, is undergoing changes rapidly due to this important development in medicine. Relations of psychiatry with the rest of medici...

We present a way of making the wearing of a lifelong electrocardiographic health monitor fun for a user. The health monitor is coupled with a reality mediator device to create a Physiologically Mediated Reality. Physiologically Mediated Reality is Mediated Reality which alters a user’s audiovisual perception of the world based upon their own electrocardiographic waveform. This creates an intere...

The Environmental Humanities constitute an emerging transdisciplinary enterprise that is becoming a key part of the liberal arts and an indispensable component of the twenty-first-century university. Bringing together scholars from a number of environmentally related fields in the humanities and allied social sciences—including Ecocriticism (Literature and Environment studies), Environmental Hi...

The humanistic practice of medicine requires that the practitioner have sufficient time and appropriate focus. Both elements, however, are under assault by the high-speed, distraction-filled environment within which primary care is delivered today. Despite or perhaps because of modern medicine's technological advances, the potentially healing bond between doctor and patient is being frayed and ...