VOLUME 3(4) • 2015
Suicidology in a nutshell
ABSTRACT. All along human history suicide has been a constant phenomenon manifested under various guises with more or less subjacent explanations. Throughout the history of various civilizations, suicide has been labeled altruistic, ritual, sacrificial, pathological and sacred. pp. 3–8 {downloads}{..
On the death of the other
ABSTRACT. The projection of the self overcomes the boundaries of the internal struggle and it is somewhat coerced to outline a similar representation of it onto a foreign element belonging to the writing. Hence, it is regarded as more than a mere outcome of the act of creation, as an impossibility t..
Suicidology
ABSTRACT. In what follows, we shall deal with suicide in the history of mankind, the nature and causes of the suicidal process, the biological and neuropsychological aspects of the suicidal behaviour, the epidemiology of suicide, the suicidal risk, the evaluation of the person with suicidal risk, th..
Over the edge: Virginia Woolf’s price for literary immortality
ABSTRACT. Extraordinary creativity like that reached by Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) no doubt came at a price. The crucial question in her case is, of course, Was that price her very own life? – as was the case, for instance, with Truman Capote, who eventually may have committed direct or indirect sui..
A breakable heart
ABSTRACT. The Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) is useful in preventing sudden cardiac death in patients with known, sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Studies have shown ICDs to have a role in preventing cardiac arrest in high-risk patients who have not had, but are at ri..
Female heart-in-pain
ABSTRACT. Cardiovascular diseases now represent the most frequent cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with the highest rate in East Europe (58%), as compared to the Western countries in which mortality through cardiovascular disease has gone down to 38%. Global data provided by WHO, in 2015,..
Healing by Art
ABSTRACT. There is now a better understanding of the relation between “life and medicine,” medical schools becoming ever more innovative by joining them together, while marketing is challenged to spread the healing further by focusing on customer’s needs. The following is a documentation of effects ..
Ecological suicide as subtextual plotline
ABSTRACT. The Matrix” trilogy and “Avatar” resort to the intricacies of postmodern utopianism to render two hypostases of mankind. However different in their respective approach, one having a technological dystopia as the basis of its narrative structure, and the other constructing an image of ecolo..
On the aesthetics of memory
ABSTRACT. The texture of the memoir that makes up the second part of Robert Lowell’s Life Studies (1959) is discontinuous, with unexpected reversals and retrievals. There is nothing timeless to be found behind the events narrated, only something constructed from isolated fragments, yet, somehow, the..
On female beauty
ABSTRACT. Throughout history, beauty has always been something to contemplate, to admire, to fill you with awe, to desire, and also to reflect upon. Cervantes provides a special place in his writings for the female beauty. The artist’s view of beauty followed Plato’s philosophy, relating it to virtu..