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Aurora Liiceanu writes a short essay about the luck. She attempts to illustrate as easy and clear as possible the psychology of a fortunate person. The commentator uses some examples in order to make this story more consistent and interesting, suggesting that Romanians wish to be prosperous by good fortune.
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Ioana Popescu uses terms as destiny, fate and fortune trying to establish some of the distinctiveness for Romanians. The author analyses the background and the customs of the Romanian people, with the purpose of a good and accurate psychosomatic illustration.
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Archeoastronomical field work and research conincided in the 1960s-1990s with the national awakening movement and helped construct a satisfactory history and national identity within the Soviet system. Myths, folklore and mythological motifs were related by people to ancient sky picture and time reconing, the calendar, timekeeping system; holy sites, rock paintings were studied, the symbols and markings were decoded. Art and documentaries on the topic became very powerful media influencing mentality and culture also outside Estonia. Central to the movement were charismatic persons. Research interdisciplinary in its nature was conducted outside of institutions, allowing for liberal choice of topics, interpretations and methods.
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The article explores the relationship between oral narrative heritage and specific material monuments on the example of two actual objects situated near the Kolyvan settlement in Western Altai. The State Hermitage Museum's archaeological fieldwork in the Sayan-Altaic region was conducted in 1993 and 1996 on Mt. Ocharovatelnaya and Mt. Sinyukha. There is a rock precipice of zoomorphic shape on Mt. Ocharovatelnaya that has been used as a sanctuary, but possibly also for astronomic observation by prehistoric people. In one observation site, the sun can be observed as setting in the mouth of an animal-shaped rock during vernal equinox - the animal as if swallows the sun. A Christian sanctuary was later erected on Mt. Sinyukha, and a wooden cross stood there even in the early 20th century. On the foot of the mountain there was an Old-Believers' nunnery. Mt. Ocharovatelnaya rises 670 m and Sinyaya Sopka, the highest peak of the Kolyvan ridge south of Mt. Ocharovatelnaya, 1,210 m above the sea level. It is a rule rather than a coincidence that the zoomorphic pagan sanctuary on Mt. Ocharovatelnaya in the north is located twice as low compared to the Christian cross on the Sinyaya mountaintop in the south. In the Christian tradition the warmer South is more revered than the cold North. In several ancient Russian geographic maps, south was situated above and north below. The position of cultic objects on mountaintops situated opposite of each other appears to symbolise the triumph of Christianity over paganism in the 18th century.
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The UN Convention on the Right of Persons with Disability, approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13 December 2006 and entered into force on 3 May 2008, introduced a new priority in the world agenda. The condition of persons with disability, previously considered as a matter of secondary importance, was transformed from a mainly a medical issue into a matter of respect for human rights. The author presents the new approach, the bio-psychosocial model of disability and shows that UN Convention and the ICF can be used together as long as it is clear that the path to be done implies research, cultural growing and changes, reforms and political willingness to consider disability not as an issue for some but a fact about human condition that concerns all citizens.
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Romania lies among in Europe regarding TB incidence. Precarious social status, inadequate social services and lack of social workers and psychologists in hospitals are some of the problems that influence TB incidence. In order to solve this TB problem we must take into consideration the psychology aspect as well as the social aspect of the disease because TB is affecting the whole personality.
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La médecine comme science a essayé de s’impliquer de plus en plus autant à l’amélioration de la qualité et du confort de la vie qu’à la modification des performances physiques et intellectuelles du corps humain. Dans la poursuite du succès, le médecin, comme homme de science, réduit à la technique, tenté à explorer les nouvelles possibilités offertes par cette-ci, a commencé peu à peu à s’éloigner autant de la composante bio-psycho-sociale de l’homme, que des problèmes existentiels de celui-ci. La spiritualité chrétienne nous enseigne que le principe fondamental qu’on doit appliquer dans la relation avec l’homme malade/souffrant est celui de le considérer comme étant une personne. Autrement dit, il est question d’observer toutes les trois dimensions de l’être humain. Mais si le corps, l’âme et l’esprit font référence à sa nature, c’est-à-dire à ce qu’on a en commun, la personnalité se réfère à ce que chaque être a de spécifique, d’unique et d’intransmisible.
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In this article the author analyzes the evolution of disability concept having as reference documents like International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability results, according this documents, the interaction between a specific health condition and environmental factors that person lives. There are several cultural, social, political and technical transformations that new documents introduce. Moving from the traditional view of disability as an individual problem to the recognition that persons with disabilities are deprived by society of equal of opportunities; from being considered as invisible citizens to being people entitled to human rights; from being considered as the objects of others decisions to the right of being conscious individuals who are capable to deciding for their own lives.
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Since the very beginning, the human being has known what medicine is because of their knowledge of illness and death. The history of medicine is, therefore, one of the places where the complexity of human being better arises. The particularity of the techne iatriké lies in the fact that the doctor doesn’t produce health, but simply restores it, or redresses a lost equilibrium. Medicine takes care of the patient by curing their health. But, along the time, medicine has been deeply transformed. Not only because of its greater capacity, but also because it has transformed its dynamism, most particularly in the techno-sciences era. These changes have involved a transformation of the way in which the human being understands himself. New categories have appeared: the human being is being conceptualized as something deliverable, a broader idea of responsibility towards the physical qualities of the new generations is emerging, and the oxymoron of sick people without any illness comes forward. All these changes and challenges call for a new comprehension of the role of the body in personal identity and restore anthropology as a central discipline in the ethics and bioethics field.
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The present paper intends to introduce a opinionated understanding of the patient-physician communication in the context of research and experimental practice. Some aspects need to be taken into account, as conditions that cannot be overloaded in a patient-physician relationship: 1. the physician as researcher and as clinician; 2. the difference of perspectives and interests between patient and physician; 3. the influence of the non-knowledge (Sartre) on the patient-physician relationship; 4. their different experience. The paper argues the following. First, the asymmetry that distinguishes the patient-physician relationship should to be seen as a resource, contrary to the common opinion that tends to avoid it; second, precisely the process through which informed consent is obtained, if correctly understood, can be a privileged instrument which preserves the quality of this relationship.
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Tuberculosis represents not only a medical issue but also a social problem. In consequence we wonder what society must do in order to solve this problem that faces us. Technically in medical terms, we have at or disposal treatment protocols proposed by the two recognized medical organizations: OMS and IUATLD. Behind these programs lies the question: “How can these programmers succeed?” At one hand these programmers require money and on the other hand: patient cooperation. Who else can assure harmony between the body and soul better than faith? A missionary activity between TB patients, especially those that come from precarious social environment, could be helpful.
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The author gives priority to the Holy Scripture, seeking to find what it is said about disability, what is the revealed text’s point of view toward this social reality. Another subject of interest to the author is the involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in supporting persons with disabilities. Apart from presenting the Romanian legislation regarding disabilities, the paper introduces some reflections on the whole and the responsibility of the parts for the whole.
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Aşa după cum bine ne-am obişnuit, şi în acest an, Arhiepiscopia Ortodoxă Română a Vadului, Feleacului şi Clujului, Spitalul Judeţean de Urgenţă şi Primăria Municipiului Bistriţa-Năsăud au organizat în zilele de 31 mai – 1 iunie, cel de-al Nouălea Seminar Ortodox de Medicină şi Teologie. Tema centrală a Seminarului din acest an a fost: Provocările Bioeticii creştine în era noilor tehnologii medicale. O noutate în acest an l-a constituit participarea unor profesori de drept şi a unor avocaţi atât din Bistriţa cât şi din ţară, care au adus în discuţie teme deosebit de importante pentru zilele noastre cum ar fi: Greşeala în medicină sau Riscul în dreptul penal şi riscul medical. Însă au participat cu conferinţe şi profesori de la Facultăţile de Teologie Ortodoxă din Cluj şi din Sibiu, de la Universităţile de Medicină din Bucureşti, Cluj, Iaşi şi Craiova, de la Facultăţile de Drept şi Biologie din Cluj dar şi profesori de la alte Facultăţi din ţară şi din străinătate. În sălile de conferinţă, au fost prezenţi: preoţi, medici şi ziarişti care au fost interesaţi de aceste teme şi probleme cu care se confruntă în activitatea lor personală.
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Tuberculosis represents a important medical issue due to its incidence. Romania stands amongst the first places in Europe regarding Tb incidence and mortality. MDRTB is another important aspect regarding TB treatment. Despite the fact that the etiology has been known for over 100 years and that etiological treatment is available Tb still represent a medic problem.
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Multe argumente, deşi nu toate, care privesc legitimarea din punct de vedere moral a eutanasiei tind să arate că este vorba despre o formă de respectare a voinţei pacientului. Se spune, într-adevăr, că aşa cum este respectată voinţa pacientului atunci când decide să refuze tratamentele, aşa trebuie respectată şi voinţa sa atunci când alege că vrea să moară (sau, cum uneori se spune, de a fi ajutat să moară). Înainte de a analiza această analogie, care tinde de altfel să justifice suicidul asistat şi eutanasia, trebuie să reflectăm asupra argumentului în sine: ar fi greşit să concludem, chiar dacă analogia ar funcţiona, că orice sprijin acordat dreptului de refuz al tratamentelor ar fi o recunoaştere implicită şi a dreptului de a cere eutanasia.
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The United Nations Universal declaration of human rights (1984) has centered the assertion of human dignity and freedom as innate (not acquired) qualities in the logic of citizenship itself; this claim has been made not only in philosophical and religious terms, but also in political terms. Affirming that all men born free and equal for what concerns their dignity means to affirm actually that dignity is an ontological attribute, an intrinsic quality (and therefore inalienable) of the human being, beyond sex, health and social standing differences. The use of the notion of person as synonym of the qualities of adult risks to crush this gain of politics. The liberal biopolitics risks to be a source of discriminations among men when it adopts a concept of person different from that of human being. According to this view, the anthropological dualism peculiar to the Platonism lives again. Hannah Arendt, Evas Kittay and Martha Nussabaum’s thesis allow us to underline the human person characteristics as both subject and bodily being, according to the Thomas Aquinas’s intuition. If we think again human person as human being, it is possible to safeguard the everybody rights and particularly to defend those phases of human life in which human person is exposed, for the phases of the development or for the illness, to the dependence. Only in this way justice could be thought including all the phases of the existence, also those marked by disability.
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Recunoştinţă prin afirmare a unui destin slujitor al dumnezeului celui viu. Am fost printre teologii privilegiaţi care l-au cunoscut şi au trăit, măcar puţin, în preajma profesorului Constantine Scouteris. Consider aceasta un privilegiu pentru faptul că domnia sa va rămâne în istoria şcolilor teologice ortodoxe ca unul dintre cei mai mari istorici ai dogmelor, volumele domniei sale sunt monumentale. Monumentală era şi bunăvoinţa sa. Când erai în preajmă te învăluia cu purtarea de grijă a unui părinte, era foarte atent şi nu voi uita disponibilitatea lui extraordinară: pot să vă ajut cu ceva, ce pot eu să fac pentru Centrul de Bioetică? Iată doar câteva expresii ale proniei sale. De aceea, acum când se odihneşte în Domnul, vreau să dedic aceste rânduri celui care a adus primul grant de cercetare în cadrul Centrului de Bioetică, profesorului Constantine Scouteris recunoştinţă.
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The importance of responsible innovation in organization’s innovative activity is well recognized and has inspired a wealth of research in finding the dimensions of responsible innovations. The unpredictable onsequences of the innovations are clearly understood, but at the current situation exists the focus to analyze the social, economical, ecological and ethical results after the launch of the innovation. Theoretical analysis of responsible innovation concept reveals few observations. First, responsible innovation concept is grounded by four main approaches: business insight, organizational cultural profile, involvement of stakeholders, and structural stage-gate process. Second, the conception of responsible innovation is the balanced entirety of the innovative activity development, when decisions are based on the stage-gate principle, involvement of stakeholders, and assessment through the organizational ethical-cultural profile in order to evaluate social, ecological, economical and ethical responsibilities for the society and environment. Third, the concept of responsible innovation is grounded by the open innovation model, which integrates the principles of stagegate, social and inclusive innovations. Fourth, the multidisciplinary concept of responsible innovation requires analyzing social, economical, ecological and ethical parameters that can be assured by using the principles of anticipation, inclusion and reflection.
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Political, technological, institutional and other reforms of the last decade encouraged communities of cities, regions and states to search for new ways to enhance their competitive advantage in the global marketplace. One of the most popular responses to the fast-changing conditions is their effort to become “smart”. Smartness, a feature characterizing, first of all, an individual, nowadays is widely attributed to almost all phenomena of life. Smart regions are considered as one of the essential preconditions for the success of the EU Cohesion policy and development strategies of many EU member states, regions or cities. However, discussions about the content of the “smart region” concept, and, in particular, its qualitative characteristics, still receive very little attention of scholars and practitioners. This paper presents the results of the theoretical research that defines the “smart region” concept in the social sciences context. The authors of the research highlight the main elements of the “smart region” concept as well as its qualitative characteristics. A theoretical model of a smart region is proposed.
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The idea of the development of smart city has recently become quite popular between scholars and even practitioners. However, quite often that new idea is understood narrowly or even is used just as a marketing tool without proper theoretical grounding. The aim of the article is to propose and to ground the principles of the development of smart city as well as to reveal the main objectives for the management of that process. One of important objectives in the article is to propose an integral model of smart city that accumulates the possibilities of applying different theories and concepts in explaining particular qualities of smart city. Smart social system in general is understood in the article as the system that is capable to make unique developmental decisions grounded with good intelligence about its external environment and employing internal as well as external resources in a way that best meets the requirements of the stakeholders.
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