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Felix Mitterer's reputation as a European dramatist of the first
rank is by now firmly established. With his gift for sketching
social milieu in a few salient strokes and creating almost
unbearably intense moments of dramatic suspense, he has for over
thirty years been riveting the attention of viewers on the
suffering of such oppressed groups as the aged (Siberia), the
mentally challenged (No Room for Idiots) and the workingmen and
women in thrall to corrupt corporations (One Everyman). The two
plays offered here, In the Lions' Den and The Panther, fall well
within the purview of Mitterer's social concerns, portraying as
they do, respectively, the plight of the Jews in the Third Reich
and, once again, the aged in contemporary society. Yet they also
reveal a deeper and more personal thematic vein having to do with
the intimate symbiosis of language and individual identity. In
Lions' Den the Jewish protagonist Kirsch affects Tyrolean dialect
to create an Aryan persona for survival purposes, in effect
corroborating the idealist doctrine, esse est percipi (to be is to
be perceived, as this or that). You are what you can persuade
others you are, and God help you if your powers of persuasion fail
you! In The Panther the old man's self-image, his very sense of
himself, erodes with the chipping-away of age at his memory of the
lines that make up Rilke's immortal Dinggedicht. In both plays the
bedrock ordering of experience imposed by language is strained to
the breaking point, leaving the protagonists teetering on the brink
of the abyss that looms just beyond personal identity. Of his own
life the self-effacing Felix Mitterer has said: "Its only unusual
aspect is that I became a writer, that I was saved and others
weren't". His words allude obliquely to the grinding poverty and
backbreaking work he had to endure labouring on the farms of the
Tyrol as he grew up. They also convey his solidarity with those
"others" who could not make it out of the Alpine ghetto and suggest
his deep commitment to make their plight, and that of other
oppressed groups, the driving force of his dramatic art. Felix
Mitterer has done what all true artists do, transformed his
personal demons into angels of art. And in tracing, through that
art, the correspondence between his own demons and those of
society, he masters them, not only in himself but in the receptive
viewer (or reader) as well.
Dime-a-dozen ideas for reforming education seem to be everywhere
these days; few actually transform the everyday experience of the
50-million-plus students who are regularly subjected to traditional
lecturing, note-taking, and rote learning - often with dismal
results. Enter Deeper Learning, 'a fast read [that] will interest
educators who want to produce self-motivated, passionate learners'
(Library Journal) by education strategist Monica R. Martinez and
sociologist Dennis McGrath.
This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical
education and aims to positively influence the future careers of
anthropologists who are currently engaged or are considering a
career in medical education. The volume is essential for medical
educators, administrators, researchers, and practitioners, those
interested in the history of medicine, global health, sociology of
health and illness, medical and applied anthropology. For over a
century, anthropologists have served in many roles in medical
education: teaching, curriculum development, administration,
research, and planning. Recent changes in medical education
focusing on diversity, social determinants of health, and more
humanistic patient-centered care have opened the door for more
anthropologists in medical schools. The chapter authors describe
various ways in which anthropologists have engaged and are
currently involved in training physicians, in various countries, as
well as potential new directions in this field. They address
critical topics such as: the history of anthropology in medical
education; humanism, ethics, and the culture of medicine;
interprofessional and collaborative clinical care; incorporating
patient perspectives in practice; addressing social determinants of
health, health disparities, and cultural competence;
anthropological roles in planning and implementation of medical
education programs; effective strategies for teaching medical
students; comparative analysis of systems of care in Japan, Uganda,
France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United
States; and potential new directions for anthropological engagement
with medicine. The volume overall emphasizes the important role of
anthropology in educating physicians throughout the world to
improve patient care and population health.
The use of the relatively new tau-leap algorithm to model the
kinematics of regulatory systems and other chemical processes
inside the cell, is of great interest. We introduce a new method
that enables us to establish the accuracy of the tau-leap method
effectively. Our approach takes advantage of the fact that the
stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) and the tau-leap method can
be represented as a special type of counting process, that can
essentially "couple," or tie together, a single realization of the
SSA process to one of the tau-leap. Because the SSA is exact we can
evaluate the accuracy of the tau-leap by comparing it to the SSA.
Our approach gives error estimates which are unrivaled by any
method currently available. Moreover, our coupling algorithm allows
us to propose an adaptive parameter selection algorithm which finds
the appropriate parameter values needed to achieve a pre-determined
error threshold in the tau-leap algorithm. This error-controlled
adaptive parameter selection method could not have been proposed
before the introduction of our coupling algorithm, and it is a
novel approach to the use of the tau-leap algorithm.
This volume reflects on how anthropologists have engaged in medical
education and aims to positively influence the future careers of
anthropologists who are currently engaged or are considering a
career in medical education. The volume is essential for medical
educators, administrators, researchers, and practitioners, those
interested in the history of medicine, global health, sociology of
health and illness, medical and applied anthropology. For over a
century, anthropologists have served in many roles in medical
education: teaching, curriculum development, administration,
research, and planning. Recent changes in medical education
focusing on diversity, social determinants of health, and more
humanistic patient-centered care have opened the door for more
anthropologists in medical schools. The chapter authors describe
various ways in which anthropologists have engaged and are
currently involved in training physicians, in various countries, as
well as potential new directions in this field. They address
critical topics such as: the history of anthropology in medical
education; humanism, ethics, and the culture of medicine;
interprofessional and collaborative clinical care; incorporating
patient perspectives in practice; addressing social determinants of
health, health disparities, and cultural competence;
anthropological roles in planning and implementation of medical
education programs; effective strategies for teaching medical
students; comparative analysis of systems of care in Japan, Uganda,
France, United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United
States; and potential new directions for anthropological engagement
with medicine. The volume overall emphasizes the important role of
anthropology in educating physicians throughout the world to
improve patient care and population health.
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