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Online access. Augustinian Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of Augustine of Hippo. Its primary focus is the study of Augustine himself, as viewed from various theological, philosophical, and historical perspectives. Articles concerned more broadly with the study of Augustine, such as studies of other persons ...
Near-death studies is a field of psychology and psychiatry that studies the physiology, phenomenology and after-effects of the near-death experience (NDE). The field was originally associated with a distinct group of North American researchers that followed up on the initial work of Raymond Moody, and who later established the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and the ...
Austin Bradford Hill. Sir Austin Bradford Hill[ a] CBE FRS [ 3] (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991) was an English epidemiologist who pioneered the modern randomised clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria ...
In medical law and medical licensing, fitness to practise is a concept in the regulation of medicine regarding whether a health professional or social worker should be allowed to work. While fitness to practice can include matters of technical competence, including qualifications the concept also contains questions about the implications of the ...
The rhetoric of health and medicine (or medical rhetoric) is an academic discipline concerning language and symbols in health and medicine. [1] Rhetoric most commonly refers to the persuasive element in human interactions and is often best studied in the specific situations in which it occurs. [2] As a subfield of rhetoric, medical rhetoric ...
Psychosurgery. 1880s. Psychosurgery (also called neurosurgery for mental disorder) has a long history. During the 1960s and 1970s, it became the subject of increasing public concern and debate, culminating in the US with congressional hearings. Particularly controversial was the work of Harvard neurosurgeon Vernon Mark and psychiatrist Frank ...
In July 2002, the Supreme Court dismissed Pinochet's indictment in the various cases on medical grounds (an alleged "vascular dementia"). That same year, the prosecuting attorney Hugo Guttierez, who headed the Caravan of Death case, declared that "Our country has the degree of justice that the political transition permits us to have."
Augustine of Hippo. Crozier, mitre, young child, book, small church, flaming or pierced heart. [ 1] Augustine of Hippo ( / ɔːˈɡʌstɪn / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈɔːɡəstiːn / AW-gə-steen; [ 22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [ 23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and ...