Of all the fields of modern technology, robotics is likely to be one of the most influential in changing the very nature of our society. In the past, the term "robot" has tended to conjure up pictures of automatonlike machines, often seen as a threat to people themselves. The concept of the robot goes back many decades, but-with the introduction of modern microelectronics the whole field of rob...

vices to health services with patients falling through the gap which has been created.'4 A recent House of Commons committee report highlighted the potential conflict explicit in the reforms between the downward pressure on the budget of social care (previously there was an open-ended commitment to those claiming income support) and the increasing demand on services resulting from detailed asse...

The last major review of medical education in Great Britain conducted by the Royal Commission’ makes no mention of gerontology as a relevant subject, and geriatric services are seen mainly as a development of general practice. It is remarkable therefore that less than 15 years after the publication of the Commission’s report a conference of teachers of geriatric medicine should be able to note’...

Human error, particularly in the practice of medicine, is inescapable and ubiquitous. Error occurs when a planned activity fails to produce its planned outcome, and when the failure is not due to chance. The era of the submissive patient who blindly accepts the opinion and actions of the medical professional is long gone. The information era and the ease of access to information via libraries a...

Two substantial Australian multi-centre clinical trials have recently provided answers to controversial questions about optimal fluid resuscitation strategies. What were the messages for critical care clinicians? Hypertonic saline (HTS) had been proposed as a better fluid for pre-hospital resuscitation of trauma patients especially those with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Potential advantages i...

this paper examines the relationships between language and ideology and how ideology is constructed and presented via different language choices in english editorials published in different socio-cultural contexts. van dijk’s (2000a) ideological square in terms of representation of the self and other was applied to the editorials. through a comparative analysis of iranian, turkish and saudi ara...

This paper examines the relationships between language and ideology and how ideology is constructed and presented via different language choices in English editorials published in different socio-cultural contexts. Van Dijk’s (2000a) ideological square in terms of representation of the self and other was applied to the editorials. Through a comparative analysis of Iranian, Turkish and Saudi Ara...