OBJECTIVE The message of the importance of a caring doctor-patient relationship is now like an old sermon which does not impact anyone's mind or action. Observing the healing practice of the old time physicians, who valued their attitudes and relationship with their patients more than the actual interventions, this paper reviews the literature on their main therapeutic device--the placebo effec...

Shigeyuki Kuwada, Douglas C. Fitzpatrick, Ranjan Batra, and Ernst-Michael Ostapoff Department of Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut; Department of Otolaryngology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Department of Anatomy and Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackso...

The question driving this particular paper is how to understand the place of sermon on digital frontier. In hopes accomplishing rather abstract task, essay will begin with an analysis concept rhetoric as articulated by Richard Lanham, Douglas Eyman, and Angela Haas. Next, review dissertation literature published since 2013 that address preaching technology. Then, “best practices” research techn...

As its title reveals, Joe’s early book, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian,1 drew an original distinction that is important to all thought about law, and about more than law: to all thought about any form of social organization, from the family to the church—for all human organization requires authority. As for the meaning of the word “authoritative”: in this book, and in his later thinkin...