Commentary regarding: F. Cavaliere et al.-Peritonectomy and hyperthermic antiblastic perfusion in the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis. Copyright 2000 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.

Dr. Davy is the Honorary President International Union of Phlebology, Honorary President French Society of Phlebology, Honorary President European Society of Phlebectomy. Dr. Andre Davy was born in 1924 in Basse, Normandy. I met Dr. Davy in 1967 in a World Congress of Phlebology in Amsterdam. I was so impressed ...

The International Society of Gynecological Pathologists was founded in 1976 to facilitate an exchange of knowledge about gynecological disease throughout the world. The Society moved quickly to schedule companion meetings with established international and regional pathology and gynecology societies, including the International Academy of Pathology, its United States-Canadian Division, and ...

This commentary, detailing the handling of a manuscript by the editor and guiding authors on preparing manuscripts and responding to reviews, provides parting advice to authors from a retiring editor. A close reading of this commentary will give some insight into the editorial process at the American Journal of Epidemiology ...

Robert Earle Buchanan (1883-1973), 19th President of the Society of American Bacteriologists (later American Society for Microbiology), was one of the more important 20th century microbiologists. He was a dominant force in creating the field of bacterial systematics and made significant contributions to microbial physiology. He also numbered a number ...

The Revue de Chirurgie Plastique and the Revue de Chirurgie Structive, Brussels (1931-1938), edited by Maurice Coelst, M.D. from Brussels, were the first, full-fledged medical publications specifically devoted to plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery. Publishing original articles by J.W. Maliniac, J. Eastman Sheehan, and brief summaries of papers read at ...

A gathering of clinician and epidemiologist researchers from three continents assembled in Paris on September 24, 1998, to contribute to a symposium honoring Professor Emile Papiernik, Chef de Service de Gynecologie et Obstetrique, Maternite Port Royal. The theme was society and individual predisposition for successful pregnancy outcome, and each presenter ...

The Korean Dermatological Association (KDA) was founded on October 27, 1945. The first annual meeting was held on November 15, 1947, and meetings have been held twice a year since 1975. The KDA 50th Annual Spring Meeting was on April 15-16, 1998. Korean Journal of Dermatology, the official journal of ...

On February 20-23, 1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona, a symposium was held that was sponsored by the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, and the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The chairs of ...

The 98th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology was held from May 17-21, 1998, in Atlanta, Georgia and was attended by well over 10,000 scientists. The theme of antibiotic resistance dominated the meeting with numerous presentations on resistance mechanisms, new targets and potential antimicrobial agents. Many new insights ...

Work on tubal insufflation marked the beginning of Kurt Semm's (b. 1927) scientific career. In the early 1960s, he directed his attention to the fact that, from a technical standpoint, tubal insufflation was similar to creating pneumoperitoneum. In the mid-1960s, Semm--himself a gynecologist--investiged his time and financial resources and risked ...

The aim of this essay is to describe and reflect upon the concrete particulars of one academician's work as an expert ethics witness. The commentary on my practices and the narrative descriptions of three cases are offered as evidence for the thesis that it is possible to act honorably within ...

Violent and aggressive behaviours have become common in a large variety of sport. The antecedents and consequences of such behaviours are outlined in the position statement issued by the International Society of Sport Psychology (ISSP). The ISSP recommends several actions be taken to minimize such acts in sport and encourages ...

This article provides a review of selected presentations and events that highlighted the annual meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP) and the 14th International Symposium on Respiratory Psychophysiology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 1995. The meeting, which was scheduled as a satellite to the 35th ...

The Committee for Diagnostic Quantitative Pathology (CDQP), known originally as the Committee for Diagnostic Morphometry, ceased to exist under the original title and was converted to the International Society for Diagnostic Quantitative Pathology (ISDQP) in Amsterdam, September 14, 1994. The history of this society started in 1981 in a conference ...

Brian Clark's drama, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, explores the difficulties of applying the principle of respect for autonomy to real-life circumstances. In the play a permanently disabled patient, who wishes to be allowed to die, raises moral questions about the adequacy of the autonomous agent, respect for the autonomy ...

Behind the scenes in the origin of the Harvey Cushing Society, now known as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, there were many interesting political factors occurring, which appeared in correspondence and were preserved and later forwarded by William P. Van Wagenen to the Harvey Cushing Section of the Yale ...

Since the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) is now well established as a major international scientific organisation, it may be of interest to recall how the Society came to be formed and how it evolved during its first few years. A chronological view will be given of ...

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Mutagen Society, this article presents a personal reflection on the development of environmental mutagenesis as a unique scientific discipline. The events following the demonstration of chemical mutagenesis in the 1940s and leading to the formation of the Environmental Mutagen Society ...

The 1992 British Photobiology Society DNA Repair meeting was held at the University of East London on December 21st. As is now customary, the meeting was very well supported, and a full program of twenty one talks were presented on topics related to DNA repair and mutation. The usual format ...

A damp and dull London day in March somewhat contradicted the title of the meeting of the Odontology Section of the RSM, Let there be light--the laser in dentistry, but there was no doubt, once inside, that the organisers had, with perfect timing, caught the interest of the profession as ...

James A. Gould, MS, PT, delivered the Paris Distinguished Service Award Lecture at the Combined Sections meeting in San Francisco in February. Gould is the second recipient of the Orthopaedic Section's Paris Award, which was named for its first recipient and the founder of the Orthopaedic Section, Stanley Paris, PhD, ...

Except for several provocative final sentences, Sigrid Fry-Revere's "A Libertarian Critique of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s The Foundations of Bioethics" is not a libertarian so much as it is a philosophical critique. Engelhardt's work has been widely reviewed, and its arguments have been discussed in Fry-Revere's article and elsewhere. Although ...

We held a computer software contest at 38th Congress of the JSA, held in March, 1991. The aim is to encourage the members of the Society to write softwares and to help distribute them, especially as Freewares. We received 25 entries for the contest; two-thirds of these are for computers ...

Moses was a lifelong preoccupation of Freud, representing a double and idealized self and object. Freud identified with different aspects of Moses during different periods of development, from concrete hero to abstract ideal. He turned to Moses in the concluding phase of his relationship with Fliess and his self-analysis, and ...

Maimonides (1135-1204) wrote extensively on moral philosophical matters. In his three main works, the Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed, he developed a far-reaching ethical system which is Aristotelian and yet is also greatly dependent upon the Rabbinic tradition. In this paper it ...

In May, 22 AMRA representatives toured the People's Republic of China at the invitation of the Chinese government. Designated delegates kept a diary of the informational exchange between the AMRA delegates and their hosts, as well as a commentary on places seen during their travels. Their diary entries have been ...

The muscle pain syndromes caused by myofascial trigger points are beset with a cloud of confusing terminology and confusing concepts. This paper introduces the presentations made at a symposium entitled "Myofascial Trigger Points: Multidisciplinary Facets," at the 55th Annual Session of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine in New Orleans ...

Cost containment was high on the list of concerns at the annual meeting and conference of the American Society for Health Manpower Education and Training in New Orleans in June. Speakers exhorted attendees to look at their profession more closely to be sure that they are doing all that they ...