Steven Lippmann, M.D. We hear people say, “I need guns to protect myself and family.” Is there a relationship between firearms and American health care being the most expensive in world? Actually, rates for suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and accidental death all increase when there is possession of a gun in the home […]
A hassidic woman in Jerusalem, a member of the sect Toldot Aharon, which is called in Israeli newspapers “an extremist haredi sect,” is suspected of starving and abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son. This story makes headlines in Israeli newspapers. The police have claimed that she not only starved her child at home over a period of […]
Sándor Kalmár M.D., Ph.D. Nihil est intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646-1716) Despite huge improvements in the research of the nervous system, psychiatry has yet to suitably define a lot of criteria neccesary to accurately define psychiatric illnesses. This crisis in psychiatry has employed psychiatrists all over the world; as was […]
María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, M.D., Ph.D. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the first thinkers who started to critique reason as the will to instrumental power. The French Philosopher, Michel Foucault (1926-1984) also believed that knowledge was inextricably linked to power 1. More recently, Jürgen Habermas (1929- ) has stated that scientists tend to […]
An interesting study by German experts revealed that men who marry younger women enhance their chances of longevity, and those who tie the knot with older women meet a premature death. The analysis was carried by a research group at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The researchers looked at the deaths […]
