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the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

The issue of consent in medical care, and its corollary refusal of consent, has become more and more complex. Three major consent issues are: (I) the capacity of giving consent or obtaining consent when the individual involved is impaired or not competent to give consent; (2) the capacity to consent to or authorize non-treatment or withdrawal of treatment; and (3) the refusal to give consent wh...

should begin at birth. The best results are obtained when children are treated in a special clinic with orthopaedic surgeon, nursing staff, and physiotherapists to supervise the patients' care. Stretching and strapping with early elongation of the tendocalcaneus when necessary has proved to be the most successful method of treatment. In our clinic 206 children have been seen with clubfoot and 3...

When last discussed in Pediatrics in 2002, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health statement “Coparent or Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Parents”2 (reaffirmed February 2010) and the accompanying technical report written by Ellen Perrin, MD, FAAP,3 drew much attention and engendered controversy both within the AAP and outside of i...

Abstract Focusing on the anti-extradition bill protests in Hong Kong, this article presents an analysis of Twitter posts adopting hashtags #antiELAB, #NoChinaExtradition and #HongKongProtests. The explores public narrative among collective identity Hongkongers opposing extradition as events unfolded during mid-2019 Kong. To do so, we adopt Bhatia’s (2015) multi-perspective framework for Discour...