Category: Medical Biographies Memoirs

Jerome Bruner is among the grand figures of psychology. From his position as a founding father of the cognitive revolution within the Nineteen Fifties to his contemporary advocacy of cultural psychology, Bruner's impact has been dramatic and far-reaching. Such is the breadth of his imaginative and prescient that Bruner's paintings has encouraged thinkers in lots of of the most important components of psychology and has had a strong influence on adjoining disciplines. His writings on language acquisition, tradition and schooling are of profound and enduring value. concentrating on the dominant topics of language, tradition and self, this quantity offers a finished exploration of Bruner's fertile rules and a thought of appraisal of his legacy.

With a wonderful record of members together with Jerome Bruner himself, the result's a very good quantity of curiosity to scholars and students in psychology, philosophy, cognitive technology, anthropology, linguistics, and education.

Among the participants are Judy Dunn, Howard Gardner, Clifford Geertz, Rom Harré, David Olson, Edward Reed, Talbot Taylor, Michael Tomasello, and John Shotter. the quantity is framed through an article creation that considers the distinctively philosophical dimensions of Bruner's inspiration, and a last bankruptcy by way of Bruner himself during which he re-examines well-known subject matters in his paintings in gentle of concerns raised by means of the members.

The quantity may be useful to scholars and researchers within the fields of psychology, cognitive technological know-how, schooling, and the philosophy of mind.

Des médecins sont célèbres parce qu’ils se sont illustrés dans leur métier (Hippocrate, Freud, Barnard…) ou dans leurs recherches (Vésale, Harvey, Virchow…). D’autres sont connus en tant que philosophe (Locke), politicien (Clemenceau), révolutionnaire (Marat), musicien (Borodine), écrivain (Breton). Ils étaient pourtant aussi médecins. Ont-il jamais pratiqué l’art de guérir ?

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Robert Askenasi est né à Bruxelles en 1939. Il termine ses études de médecine en 1965 et devient chef du provider des urgences à l’hôpital Erasme après avoir travaillé 10 ans comme assistant en médecine interne à l’hôpital Brugmann. Retraité depuis 2002, il se passionne non seulement pour l’écriture mais aussi pour los angeles guitare classique et l. a. photographie. Dessins de Paul Szternfeld.

Paget’s illness is an extraordinary and painful bone ailment for which there's no healing. it's the moment commonest bone sickness surpassed simply via osteoporosis. such a lot sufferers with Paget’s disorder are aged and the age at prognosis is generally more than 50 years. Paget’s illness impacts either women and men, with a mild male predominance. This sickness poses many demanding situations from a lifetime of independence to at least one of dependency. i locate this popularity is the best problem so I don’t live on it. My religion sustains me as I placed myself in God’s hands.

The background of the 318th box medical institution has been well timed written for the a hundred anniversary of the U.S. access into WWI, the good struggle. the tale will take you from the early days in Georgia, Camp Oglethorpe, because the scientific professional start to find out about military lifestyles. Onto the Camp Lee, Virginia, event, the place non experts examine fast easy methods to turn into squaddies. adventure the adventure around the Atlantic Ocean and into the north east nook of France the place males heard and observed the trials of a awful scene from their box hospital.

You won’t omit this first-hand account, from the tale written by means of the solders, as they use humor to hide up what they really observed and felt. because it is typically known as, “humor in uniform”, can help you spot their trip to and again from warfare, as they checklist lifestyles within the army.

Individual brief biographies of every soldier will resolution your query, “What occurred to those males after the War?”

“It’s raining and the reflections of the purple and white lighting are dancing off the constructions as we race down the rainy streets. Sirens are screaming a caution to the only a few those that dare to stroll the road at night.

We make a last flip and the scene comes into view. There’s a lone police automobile; its gentle bar extinguished in order to not name recognition to itself. We stick with swimsuit and close our lighting and siren off as we strategy. within the heart of the rain-soaked highway, a crowd has accumulated. a lady is screaming, being held up through neighbors or kin. a guy lies crumpled in the course of the line subsequent to his wheelchair. The cop seems to be anxious as we roll to a cease and go out the ambulance. ‘He’s been shot – a lot,’ he shouts from approximately 10 ft away.

The decibel point instantly raises from the gang of distraught onlookers. we all know we’re going to need to paintings fast to attempt to save lots of the sufferer and break out from the scene for our personal safeguard. We seize the guts computer screen, oxygen, trauma bag and the stretcher for the fourth time this shift and once more cross wading into chaos…”

Paramedics and EMTs are front line of the world’s emergency clinical method and function eyewitnesses to a few of life’s most useful and both so much tragic moments.

Wading Into Chaos, written by way of a veteran paramedic, delivers a primary hand, actual lifestyles glimpse contained in the chaotic international of Emergency scientific providers. experience alongside and adventure the feelings, the disappointment, the unhappiness and the darkish humor that accompanies responding to deadly motor vehicle crashes, 14-year-old suicides, internal urban gang violence, educate injuries, med-e-vac helicopter landings, and the forgotten aged who simply want a person to speak to.

even though Florence Nightingale is known as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing is scarcely identified within the occupation. Nursing professors are inclined to “look to the longer term, to not the past,” and sometimes forget about her or depend on defective secondary resources.

Nightingale’s paintings on nursing is now to be had to students and normal readers alike throughout the ebook of volumes 12 and thirteen within the amassed Works of Florence Nightingale. quantity 12, The Nightingale School, relates the founding of her tuition at St Thomas’ clinic and her advice of its educating for the remainder of her existence. quantity thirteen, Extending Nursing, relates the creation education and criteria outdoors St Thomas’, starting with London hospitals and others in Britain, via hospitals in Europe, the USA, Australia and Canada.

As scientific wisdom improved, nursing perform replaced and Nightingale with it. Her evolving perspectives on nursing, and on germ concept (typically misrepresented within the literature), are published.

during this quantity, editor Lynn McDonald brings to gentle a lot unknown fabric at the early years of the varsity. The situation of its close to breakdown within the early 1870s is roofed, via the measures Nightingale introduced in to enhance guideline, together with her mentoring relationships with rising nursing leaders. Nursing historians can be shocked to benefit that Nightingale was once maintaining on top working theatre practices in 1898. Struggles with cost-conscious sanatorium directors are a part of the tale, as is the problem to maintain nurses secure at a time whilst hospitals have been risky areas.

Vol idealen reist de kersverse tropenarts Steven van de Vijver naar de Democratische Republiek Congo. Voor Artsen zonder Grenzen zal hij er bijna een jaar in een crisisgebied werken. Tijdens zijn verblijf wordt hij binnen en buiten het ziekenhuis geconfronteerd met het leven in deze ontwrichte samenleving en zijn eigen rol daarin als blanke hulpverlener. Ontwikkelingshulp en een leven in Afrika blijken in de praktijk anders dan verwacht.
Het is een intens bestaan met veel emoties: spannende momenten op de operatiekamer en ontmoetingen met medicijnmannen die zwarte magie beoefenen worden afgewisseld met beladen voetbalwedstrijden van de lokale membership, waarin de witte arts als diepste spits staat opgesteld. De vreugde over bijzondere vriendschappen wint het van de beklemmende angst voor oorlog.
Op een informatieve, humoristische en persoonlijke manier biedt Steven van de Vijver een uniek inzicht in het veelzijdige leven als vrijwilligerswerker in een ontwikkelingsland.

Most humans imagine that stroke sufferers prove having a look like Frankenstein with a terrible facial features and erratic movements. yet, that isn't the means it needs to be. at the present time, it's attainable for a few stroke sufferers to make a whole restoration. Gerry Purdy is familiar with this simply because his spouse, Alicia – a fit, appealing and shrewdpermanent individual – suffered a stroke on August 23, 2011 and was once capable of go back to her vivacious self. Our Stroke of Luck portrays the lifestyles that they had jointly. Gerry and Alicia had dated in highschool and bought again jointly for his or her forty fifth highschool reunion. existence used to be stable. after which – Bam! – abruptly Alicia suffered a stroke. learn how Alicia’s neurosurgeon was once in a position to get rid of the clot from her mind that prompted the stroke. adventure the demanding ups and downs of that night—one second seeming as if she could be paralyzed on her left facet for the remainder of her lifestyles after which the subsequent seeing a flash of desire. Gerry and Alicia have been fortunate that the radiologist used to be capable of determine the clot in her mind and fortunate to get her transferred to the Marcus Stroke middle at Grady medical institution in Atlanta. They have been fortunate that Dr. Nogueira was once capable of extract the clot from Alicia’s mind. And, eventually, they have been fortunate that she was once capable of make an entire restoration. really, this used to be their stroke of luck.

Niklaus Flütsch kam 1964 in Zürich zur Welt. Als Bettina. Das variety trug alle äußeren Zeichen eines Mädchens, wurde von seiner Umgebung auch eindeutig als solches wahrgenommen, fühlte sich aber als Junge. Im regulate von vier Jahren bat es seine Mutter, sich die langen Haare schneiden zu dürfen. Die Enttäuschung, dass mit den fallenden Haaren nicht automatisch ein Zipfelchen zwischen seinen Beinen wuchs, warfare immens. Über seine Seelennot redete das style nie, auch nicht in der Pubertät. Es arrangierte sich so weit wie möglich mit seiner weiblichen Hülle, studierte später Medizin und wurde Gynäkologin. Im adjust von forty six Jahren schließlich entschied sich Niklaus, so der neue identify, zur Transition. Im nun folgenden Prozess sprach er das erste Mal über seine now not. Mit seinen Eltern, seinen Geschwistern, seinen Patientinnen, seinen Freundinnen und Freunden, seinen Arbeitskolleginnen und -kollegen. Er setzte alles auf eine Karte und battle bereit, alles zu verlieren, um endlich zu werden, was once er im Grunde immer schon warfare. Heute, mit fünfzig Jahren, blickt Niklaus im Spiegel endlich in das Gesicht, das seine Seele schon immer haben wollte. Niklaus Flütsch betreibt in Zug eine gynäkologische Praxis und ist als Geburtshelfer am Zuger Kantonsspital tätig. Daneben begleitet er transidente Menschen auf ihrem Weg, schreibt Fachartikel und hält Vorträge und Workshops im In- und Ausland.