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ADAM SMITH'S OPTIMISTIC TELEOLOGICAL VIEW OF HISTORY
Get PDFAdam Smith's four-stage theory provides the framework for his writings on history. The fourth stage is the commercial epoch; the culmination of history in this stage is a key component in the conventional interpretation of Adam Smith as a prophet of commercialism. In two historical case studies Smith shows the capacity of commercial society to regenerate itself. This potent capacity suggests that commercial society is inevitable. At a certain point in time it also overcomes the major obstacles to its permanence. Smith's philosophy of history anticipates the end of history views of Kant and Hegel.Political Economy,
How Might Adam Smith Pay Professors Today?
Get PDFAdam Smith’s proposal for paying professors was intended to induce increased faculty knowledge. If students have imperfect information about what they learn, and universities can only imperfectly measure the input of faculty time in student learning, publications may be used to measure faculty knowledge. If professors’ ability to publish is positively related to their ability to produce student learning, which universities can imperfectly measure, publications may be necessary to attract more able professors. Since research signals faculty knowledge, schools that do not value publications per se could require higher publication standards and pay higher wages than schools that value only publications.
ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF HISTORY: CONSISTENT OR PARADOXICAL?
Get PDFThe conventional interpretation of Adam Smith is that he is a prophet of commercialism. The liberal capitalist reading of Smith is consistent with the view that history culminates in commercial society. The first part of the article develops this optimistic interpretation of Smith's view of history. Smith implies that commercial society is the end of history because 1) it supplies the ends of nature that he identifies; 2) it is inevitable; and 3) it is permanent. The second part of the article shows that Smith has some dark moments in his writings where he seems to reject completely such teleological notions. In this more civic humanist mood he confesses that commercial society does not supply the ends of nature, nor is it inevitable, nor is it permanent. Both views exist in Smith and the commentator is forced to choose between passages in Smith's work in order to support a particular interpretation of the former's view of history.Political Economy,
The impact of breast reconstruction on the quality of life of women after mastectomy
Get PDFRzońca Agnieszka, Fronczak Adam. The impact of breast reconstruction on the quality of life of women after mastectomy. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(4):481-488. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.546417
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Received: 25.03.2017. Revised 27.03.2017. Accepted: 15.04.2017.
Wpływ rekonstrukcji piersi na jakość życia kobiet po przebytej mastektomii
The impact of breast reconstruction on the quality of life of women after mastectomy
Agnieszka Rzońca, Adam Fronczak
Zakład Zdrowia Publicznego, Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny
Słowa kluczowe: rak piersi, jakość życia, rekonstrukcja, mastektomia.
Key words: breast cancer, quality of life, reconstruction, mastectomy.
Abstrakt
Wstęp: Rak gruczołu piersiowego jest najczęstszym nowotworem występującym wśród kobiet. Leczenie raka gruczołu piersiowego staje się coraz mniej okaleczające lecz w wielu przypadkach wymaga radykalnego leczenia chirurgicznego. Rak piersi stanowi znaczne obciążenie dla kobiety. Rekonstrukcja piersi jest elementem kompleksowego leczenia raka piersi, który może poprawić jakość życia kobiet.
Cel: Celem przedstawionych badań było wykazanie wpływu operacji rekonstrukcji na jakość życia kobiet po przebytej mastektomii.
Materiał i metody: Badanie zostało przeprowadzone wśród 92 kobiet należących do Stowarzyszenia Amazonek. Rekonstrukcja piersi została przeprowadzona u połowy z przebadanych kobiet. Do zbadania jakości życia został wykorzystany autorski kwestionariusz.
Wyniki: Największą grupę badanych stanowiły kobiety powyżej 55 lat. Ponad połowa respondentek posiadała dzieci. 80% kobiet było zadowolonych z efektów rekonstrukcji. Najczęstsze zmiany jakie wywołała rekonstrukcja to poprawa samopoczucia, poprawa wyglądu oraz zwiększona pewność siebie
Abstract
Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common tumor among women. The treatment of breast cancer is becoming increasingly less mutilating but in many cases it requires drastic surgical procedures. Brest cancer imposes a significant psychological strain on woman. : Breast reconstruction is an element of complex treatment of breast cancer which can improve the quality of life for women.
Aim: The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the impact of breast reconstruction on the quality of life for women after mastectomy procedure.
Material and methods. The survey was conducted among 92 women belonging to the Amazon association. Breast reconstruction has been used on 46 women. The author's questionnaire is used to assess the quality of life.
Results: The largest group of respondents were women over 55 years of age. More than half of the respondents had children. 80% of the women were satisfied with the effects of the re construction. The most common changes that triggered the reconstruction were improvement of mood, improvement of appearance and increased self-confidence
Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes
Get PDFThis essay is a preprint of an article that appeared at: Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57.This essay discusses Adam Smith historical jurisprudence and his use of Roman law materials in his Lectures on Jurisprudence. It argues that Smith found it difficult to maintain his theory of legal development in the face of a highly developed body of Roman law literature
Zofia Krzyzanowska, Adam Strzeszewski, and Unidentified
No full textFrom left: Zofia Krzyzanowska (nee Zofia Wisniewska; later: Zofia Drzewieniecki), Deputy Director of the Polish YMCA attached to the Polish 2nd Corps in Italy; Adam Strzeszewski, director, Polish YMCA; unidentified. Italy, 1944 or 1945. [no. 485, Fronczak Collection]https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/ymcaphotos/1040/thumbnail.jp
THE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF ADAM SMITH'S WORK
Get PDFThe paper will discuss the theological foundation to Smith's writings. Teleology, final causes and divine design were initially seen as central to understanding Smith's writings. Over time, this view fell out of fashion. In the period after World War II, with the rise of positivism, commentators tended to overlook or downplay this interpretation. In the last decade, or so, teleology has started to be restored to its former position as an essential element in understanding Smith. After spelling out Smith's teleology and his view of final causes, divine design and the ends of nature, we try to explain the Panglossian nature of the 'new theistic view' of Smith. While our view differs somewhat, we agree with the essence of the 'new view' claim: a theological view exists in Smith which underpins his moral and economic theories.Political Economy,
Interview. Matthew Joseph with Adam Gussow, musician and author
Get PDFInterview in which Adam Gussow discusses hill country blues musi
Książę Adam Jerzy Czartoryski i jego stronnicy w świetle historiografii ukraińskiej
Get PDFIn 1937, the Warsaw historian Marceli Handelsman published a work entitled Ukraińska polityka
ks. Adama Czartoryskiego przed wojną krymską [Ukrainian politics of Prince Adam Czartoryski
before the Crimean War]. So far, this book has been used by historians as the primary source of
information on the Ukrainian issue in the views of the Hotel Lambert’s leader. The author of this
text has decided to collect Ukrainian works referring to the topic inaugurated by Handelsman. Unfortunately, no larger study has been prepared on the Ukrainian side. However, a number of articles
and encyclopaedic notes showing Prince Adam and his Eastern policy (especially during his stay
at the court of Tsar Alexander I Romanov) has been published. Ukrainian authors paid much more
attention to Czartoryski’s associates, who tried to put his ideas into practice. Ukrainian researchers
wrote mainly about Michał Czaykowski (Sadyk Pasha) organizing the Cossack troops in the Ottoman Empire, about Hipolit Terlecki striving for the union of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic
Churches, and finally about the ethnographer and writer Franciszek Duchiński clearly separating
Ukraine from Russia in his writings
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