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The last two centuries have seen major scientific and technological advances that have turned the field of microbiology upside down. If Louis Pasteur came out of his vault to celebrate his two hundredth birthday with us, would he recognize the field of study of which he was one of the founders? Are the objectives of the discipline still the same? What is the influence of new technologies on our scientific approach? What are the new horizons and future challenges?
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThomas Szasz: The uncompromising rebel and critic of psychiatry.
Psychiatr Pol
August 2021
Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu, Katedra Nauk Społecznych i Humanistycznych.
April 2020 marks what would have been the hundredth birthday of Professor Thomas Stephen Szasz, who passed away in 2012. This year was also the 60th anniversary of the first publication of his iconoclastic thesis on the "myth of mental illness." In the present paper, Szasz's main views on mental illness and modern psychiatry are summarized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInsulin's Discovery: New Insights on Its Hundredth Birthday: From Insulin Action and Clearance to Sweet Networks.
Int J Mol Sci
January 2021
Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec and Département de Pédiatrie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, QC G1V4G2, Canada.
In 2021, the 100th anniversary of the isolation of insulin and the rescue of a child with type 1 diabetes from death will be marked. In this review, we highlight advances since the ingenious work of the four discoverers, Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod, James Bertram Collip and Charles Herbert Best. Macleoad closed his Nobel Lecture speech by raising the question of the mechanism of insulin action in the body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContemporary Dialogues between Rorty's Pragmatism and Cultural Psychology: a Reading of Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci
December 2019
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Av. da Arquitetura, s/n, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas - CFCH, 8° Andar, Recife, PE, 50740-550, Brazil.
The book Jerome S. Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities immerses the reader in an epistemic, historical, and affective portrait delivered by authors from various fields and distinct perspectives on Bruner's work, in celebration of his hundredth birthday. If, on the one hand, it is possible to say that Bruner's life story intertwines with the history of Psychology itself, on the other hand, it is possible to recognise the author as a great ironist, according to Rorty's perspective, in his way of approaching the transformation process in psychological science.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHip Fracture Surgery and Survival in Centenarians.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
November 2016
School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
Background: Hip fracture (HF) is increasingly frequent with advancing age. Studies describing the HF incidence rate and survival after surgery in centenarians are scanty. To fill this gap, we performed a large population-based investigation on Lombardy centenarians (Italy).
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