Pirkis J, Neal L, Dare A, Blood RW, Studdert D.Center for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2009 Apr;39(2):190-3. There are worldwide concerns that pro-suicide web sites may trigger suicidal behaviors among vulnerable individuals. In 2006, Australia became the first country to criminalize […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. Science is a man-made knowledge-based system derived from ongoing observations which are based on theories about our surroundings. Scientific knowledge acknowledges only the observable and replicable phenomena as truth. Any information about the past and the rest of the universe are merely theories and speculation based on partial observations and historical finds. […]
Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D., currently lives in New Zealand. His career history in academia, UK National Health Service, and Private sector includes research and research methodology, research capacity building, and application of operational research and statistical modelling in nutrition and nutritional intervention, gerontology, adolescent health, and suicide. His interest in public health led him to view […]
Qualifications 2005 Habilitation for `Sociological Psychiatry´ at the Medical Faculty, University of Munich, Germany 1988 Doctoral degree in Social Science, University of Wuppertal, Germany 1980 Diploma in Social Sciences, University of Bochum, Germany Positions 1998-present: Senior social scientist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Munich 1991-1997: lecturer on Public Health, University of Düsseldorf […]
Steven Lippmann, M.D. We hear people say, “I need guns to protect myself and family.” Is there a relationship between firearms and American health care being the most expensive in world? Actually, rates for suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and accidental death all increase when there is possession of a gun in the home […]
“I am a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Here since 1976, I have done inpatient hospital psychiatry for three decades, consultation/liaison practice for several years, and currently am involved in a psychogeriatrics program. I have interest in general adult psychiatry, general medicine, drug abuse, pharmacology, and geriatrics. For over […]
Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also, Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains […]
A hassidic woman in Jerusalem, a member of the sect Toldot Aharon, which is called in Israeli newspapers “an extremist haredi sect,” is suspected of starving and abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son. This story makes headlines in Israeli newspapers. The police have claimed that she not only starved her child at home over a period of […]
english translation by Peter Zollman Abandoned by my words I’m left alone or I’ve become an aimless overflown drifting river and in my murky mud I drag the flotsam washed up in the flood: old idioms exhausted vain pretences like broken hedgerows signpost maybe fences. Oh would the Master wisely grant the force that channels […]
Leo Sher, M.D. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS Sher L., Kandel I., Merrick J. (editors). Special Issue of The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health on Adolescence and Alcohol, 2006, Vol. 18, No. 1. Sher L., Merrick J. (editors). Special Issue of The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health on Alcohol and Adolescent Suicide, […]
