This paper explores how current developments within medical humanities might provide a way to both understand and address the origin of recent events that have left the profession branded as arrogant, out of touch and misguided (2). The arts provide a powerful medium to improve the understanding of the experience of illness. Furthermore the understanding obtained is qualitatively different from...

the analysis position of gender in of two plays, , dream in an empty cup and the mug written by naghme saminifarindokhte zahedi rafiq nosrati azar najibi abstracttheater has played a role of much greater importance in society than merely amusing the audience. the playwrights represent the culture, lifestyle and customs of the society, interpret the culture, and criticize it. according to aristo...

althusser (1918-1990) argues that there are two ways to maintain power. in order to hold power, the ruling class in a pre-capitalist society depends on repressive apparatuses such as police and military force whereas in a modern capitalist society it chooses to use ideological apparatuses like religion, education or arts. bamdede khomar is the story of eighty years of development in iranian soc...

Since the economic reform in Vietnam in 1986 provided more artistic and financial autonomy, the arts community has had more opportunity to develop. It has hence become necessary for arts leaders to obtain management and marketing skills to adapt to the new competitive environment. This necessity became vital when the Vietnamese government sought to tackle the problem of inadequate state funding...

Traditional Chinese painting (”Guohua”) is the gem of Chinese traditional arts. More and more Guohua images are digitized and exhibited on the Internet. Effectively browsing and retrieving them is an important problem need to be addressed. This paper proposes a method to categorize them into Gongbi and Xieyi schools, which are two basic types of traditional Chinese paintings. A new low-level fe...