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Misaligned hope and conviction in health care. [PDF]
Abstract It is often said that it is important for patients to possess hope that their treatment will be successful. We agree, but a widely appealed to type of hope—hope based on conviction (religious or otherwise), renders this assertion problematic.
Clarke S, Oakley J, Pugh J, Wilkinson D.
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A neglected legacy: Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse in the era of nations and nationalism
Abstract This paper discusses the influence of Sigmund Freud, in particular that of his book Massenpsychologie und ich‐analyse, on the academic representation of nationalism. Written after World War I, just before the rise of the fascist regimes that would lead to World War II and the Nazi Holocaust, Massenpsychologie very quickly became a work of ...
Juan García‐García
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Criminal Law at the Limit: Countering False Claims in Elections and Referendums
Abstract When should the criminal law intervene to deter and punish the promulgation of falsehoods that are intended to influence political – electoral or referendum ‐ campaigns? I will scrutinise the protection that UK criminal law provides for the interests of candidates, referendum campaigners and voters, from the (potential) effects of damaging ...
Jeremy Horder
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Abstract Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their transformations across this period reveal the shifting perceptions of the crown, parliament ...
RICHARD HUZZEY, HENRY J. MILLER
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The curious case of charles darwin and homeopathy. [PDF]
In 1849, Charles Darwin was so ill that he was unable to work one out of every 3 days, and after having various troubling symptoms for 2–12 years, he wrote to a friend that he was ‘going the way of all flesh’. He sought treatment from Dr James Manby Gully, a medical doctor who used water cure and homeopathic medicines. Despite being highly skeptical of
Ullman D.
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Semiconductor Materials for Future Display Devices
The large majority of solid state lamps currently available take advantage of the phenomenon of electroluminescent recombination at forward biased p–n junctions (homojunctions) in III–V compound semiconductors or related derivatives (GaP, GaAsP, etc.). The range of colours, sizes and luminous efficiencies likely to become available are subject, however,
T. L. Tansley, S. J. T. Owen
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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A psychological motif for the popularity of a myth about Endymion and the Ukrainian translations of the literary endymionade [PDF]
Рopularity of mythological plot about Endymion is investigated. The author researches different versions of the myth to discover their dominate motifs: “BEAUTY - LOVE – IMMORTALITY”, which explain psychological peculiarities for the popularity of myth
Фоміна, Людмила
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Background The article examines the construction of imperial mythology, its structure and its significance for political activity within Benjamin Disraeli’s political thought.
Tomasz Madras
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