The article attempts to explore fundamental assumptions underlying Goffman’s theory of interaction. Goffman’s work has long been criticized for certain pervasive weaknesses such as the idea of a self as ‘inside’ and therefore inaccessible, an indifference to any distinction between appearance and reality, and a lack of concern for morality. It is argued that combating these and related problems...

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When I began my 2-year term as Chairman of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research (1975– 1977), I was looking for some special project. The Freis-V.A. studies had appeared in 1969 and 1970 and proved beyond a doubt that the drug treatment of hypertension saved lives and prevented strokes and congestive heart failure. Drug companies were responding to this by developing new drugs such as b...

persons (Creery and Parkinson, 1953; Greenwald and Pennell, 1930; Hartmann and Jaudon, 1937; Ketteringham and Austin, 1938; McKittrick, 1940; Norval, Kennedy and Berkson, 1949; Smith, 1951; Wachter, 1949). There is less information concerning the blood sugar levels of the infants born of diabetic mothers, but the evidence suggests an early and rapid fall to a low level followed by a slow rise t...

Among all her other illnesses, the first was a great and continuous headache: because of this it often seemed to her that the back of her head boiled like a pot placed on the fire: and because of her great anguish, it looked to her as though her eyes, full of fire, were about to pop out of her head; and that she could not retain even one of her senses, were it not for the grace of God helping h...

Clinical lore suggests that depression is associated with frequent and intense crying. To test these postulations empirically, a standardized cry-evoking stimulus was presented to depressed and nondepressed participants, and their likelihood of crying and the magnitude of crying-related changes in their emotion experience, behavior, and autonomic physiology were compared. Unexpectedly, crying w...

People with epilepsy (PWE), particularly those with more severe seizures, are at risk of premature death. The contribution of deaths unrelated to epilepsy to this risk is likely to be significant. Recent studies indicate that comorbid conditions are similarly increased in PWE. The reason for these increases in unrelated deaths and comorbid conditions is unclear. In this article, we argue that h...

ritten in 1779 by the playwright and philosopher Gotthold Lessing, Nathan the Wise http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463609019 /ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325& creativeASIN=1463609019&linkCode=as2&tag=thenewrep08!20 ranks among the most powerful arguments for religious tolerance in the entirety of the eighteenth century. Germany in the age of Enlightenment was still tre...