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2020 ◽  
Vol VI (1) ◽  
pp. 208-215
Author(s):  
M. M. Maevsky

- On January 20 of this year, the Kazan City Duma considered the petition of the director of the Kazan District Hospital for the mentally ill on the concession of city land in the amount of 750 square meters. soot. in return for the hospital, which is to move away from the gardens of the hospital, a construction on this part of the road, as well as the sale of 25 acres of pasture land beyond the Kazanka River for the needs of the hospital. Both petitions of the director of the Asylum Duma were rejected. Administrators of the hospital should perhaps assertively and energetically defend their interests, as there is a more general issue in connection with the disruption of the above-mentioned applications, which has long been raised and urgent, the question of the urgent and urgent need for the expansion of the all the while, it is very difficult for the sick.

2020 ◽  
Vol V (4) ◽  
pp. 214-216
Author(s):  
B. I. Vorotynsky

- The Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Medical Department is included in the State Council with a presentation on borrowing from the capital of public funds the amounts necessary for the construction of District Hospitals for the mentally ill. These sums will also be used to build the District Hospital in Vilnius, designed for the provinces of the north-western region.


2014 ◽  
Vol 05 (04) ◽  
pp. 426-427
Author(s):  
Sayantanava Mitra ◽  
Anjana Rao Kavoor

ABSTRACTIn spite of becoming more humane in its approach with improvements in understanding of mental illnesses over last century, psychiatry still has a long way to go. At this point in time, on one hand the world faces issues like terrorism, wars and global warming; while on the other it is witnessing economic and gender empowerment like never before. With technology providing us with immense opportunities to advance care for the mentally ill, we are closer than ever to finding the holy-grail of psychiatry, and overcoming daunting challenges.


2020 ◽  
Vol VI (4) ◽  
pp. 220-226
Author(s):  
B. I. Vorotynsky

- October 10 p. Mr. Minister of Internal Affairs for the mentally ill visited the Kazan District Hospital for the mentally ill.- Privat-docent of Kazan University for the department of nervous and mental illnesses, doctor of medicine, B.I. Vorotynskiy, on January 1899 will be sent abroad for one year for a scientific purpose.


1903 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 23-23
Author(s):  
N. Toporkov

Review of Psychology, Neurology and Experimental Psychology No. 7. 1902 Having cited in some detail the literature of the question, the author describes a patient who was admitted to the Kazan District Hospital with manifestations of mutism, which suddenly developed in her on the road. On the next day of admission, the patient was offered hypnosis by the author, after which she spoke completely fluently. The patient presents a bright example of a hysterical character; suffers from kleptomania.


Author(s):  
Sue Bailey

This chapter follows one person’s journey into psychiatry and a clinical career as a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist. It covers the importance of taking a developmental understanding of clinical dilemmas set in social context and the often paradoxical attitudes of society throughout history towards those who are mentally ill and whose behaviour they fear, whether via harm to self or to others. It also considers how research can inform and improve practice and how serendipity can take a career along interesting routes of working with and shaping the decisions of policy-makers to improve mental health of populations and individuals. It describes how skills in mental health can improve practice across the whole of medicine and the importance of using emotional intelligence to enable clinical teams to deliver best care with true shared decision-making with patients and their families.


Author(s):  
Rosalie Pronk ◽  
D. L. Willems ◽  
S. van de Vathorst

AbstractPhysician-assisted death (PAD) for patients suffering from mental illness is legally permitted in the Netherlands. Although patients’ relatives are not entrusted with a legal role, former research revealed that physicians take into account the patient’s social context and their well-being, in deciding whether or not to grant the request. However, these studies focussed on relatives’ experiences in the context of PAD concerning patients with somatic illness. To date, nothing is known on their experiences in the context of PAD concerning the mentally ill. We studied the experiences of relatives with regard to a PAD request by patients suffering from mental illness. The data for this study were collected through 12 interviews with relatives of patients who have or had a PAD request because of a mental illness. We show that relatives are ambivalent regarding the patient’s request for PAD and the following trajectory. Their ambivalence is characterised by their understanding of the wish to die and at the same time hoping that the patient would make another choice. Respondents’ experiences regarding the process of the PAD request varied, from positive (‘intimate’) to negative (‘extremely hard’). Some indicated that they wished to be more involved as they believe the road towards PAD should be a joint trajectory. To leave them out during such an important event is not only painful, but also harmful to the relative as it could potentially complicate their grieving process. Professional support during or after the PAD process was wanted by some, but not by all.


Archaeologia ◽  
1836 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Edward Hawkins

On Sunday afternoon, June 30, 1833, as four boys, under ten years of age, were playing at marbles in a small piece of pasture land called the Old Litten, attached to the homestead called the Manor House, in Beaworth, one of them discovered in the track of a waggon-wheel a piece of lead sticking up above the surface; upon stooping down to take hold of it, he discovered a small hole, into which he thrust his hand, and brought out a number of coins, his companions immediately following his example. Though they did not consider their treasure to be more than old buttons, they concealed a part of them in an adjoining potatoe field, and others they took into the village of Beaworth; but treating them as of no value, some they jerked into a pond, and others they flung about the road. Half a dozen villagers who were, as usual upon a Sunday afternoon, congregated in the street, were attracted by the circumstance, and being more aware of the value of the pieces thus discovered, hastened to the spot, and commenced a regular scramble for the booty. As some of the parties obtained possession of many more than others, the parents of the boys who first discovered the treasure became dissatisfied, and appealed on the following morning to Mr. Dunn of Alresford, the owner of the land. This gentleman immediately sent a confidential person to Beaworth, to claim from the parties the delivery of the Coins to him, which was readily complied with, though, it is suspected, not to the full extent, and on the same evening Mr. Dunn received upwards of six thousand Coins.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Addy Pross

Despite the considerable advances in molecular biology over the past several decades, the nature of the physical–chemical process by which inanimate matter become transformed into simplest life remains elusive. In this review, we describe recent advances in a relatively new area of chemistry, systems chemistry, which attempts to uncover the physical–chemical principles underlying that remarkable transformation. A significant development has been the discovery that within the space of chemical potentiality there exists a largely unexplored kinetic domain which could be termed dynamic kinetic chemistry. Our analysis suggests that all biological systems and associated sub-systems belong to this distinct domain, thereby facilitating the placement of biological systems within a coherent physical/chemical framework. That discovery offers new insights into the origin of life process, as well as opening the door toward the preparation of active materials able to self-heal, adapt to environmental changes, even communicate, mimicking what transpires routinely in the biological world. The road to simplest proto-life appears to be opening up.


ASHA Leader ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly S. Chabon ◽  
Ruth E. Cain

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