Environmental epigenetics has attracted attention in the media owing to its potential for informing public health policies. It is therefore important to take its societal implications into consideration by cooperating with researchers in the social sciences and humanities.
This article aims to locate the connections between Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, with a particular focus on the model of intersubjectivity, as drawn from his Phenomenology of Spirit. The roots of the encounter between the philosophy of Hegel and psychoanalytic theory can be traced back to Jacques Lacan and the less well-considered figure of Jean Hyppolite. Lacan, as a psychoanalyst, used Hegel's thought in his own theory, as is well known, while Hyppolite was arguably one of the first to write from a philosophical angle about the links between the two seemingly opposed systems of thinking. I will give a broad overview of the use of Hegelian philosophy in psychoanalytic theory from the Hyppolite-Lacan relationship through to contemporary thinkers in the fields of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Although recently the figure of Slavoj Ž ižek has popularised the Hegel-psychoanalysis connection, there remains much more to be explored in this branch of Hegel studies that widens the scope beyond the Lacanian-Marxist version he employs. This article will survey existing literature (in the English language) and thus illuminate the key texts in the history of Hegel's impact on psychoanalytic theory and the concept of intersubjectivity and gesture towards the future potential of this line of inquiry.
BackgroundTasmania is a large, relatively isolated island located south of mainland Australia with limited tertiary level paediatric oncology services.AimsTo benchmark regional outcomes for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) against published international standards.MethodsWe undertook a retrospective cohort study, analysing the clinical characteristics and health outcomes of all children diagnosed with and treated for ALL in Tasmania, Australia between 2006 and 2015.ResultsThirty‐five patients aged less than 18 years were diagnosed with ALL in the study's 10‐year period. Twenty‐eight cases were precursor B cell in origin, with 7 cases of T‐cell ALL. The great majority of children (30/35; 86%) received their entire first line treatment in Tasmania. Major treatment‐related toxicities, including allergic drug reactions, and episodes of acute pancreatitis, deep venous thrombosis and bacterial sepsis, were managed locally, with one death secondary to overwhelming infection and multiorgan failure. The overall and event‐free survival rates for childhood ALL were 30/35 (86%) and 28/35 (80%), respectively.ConclusionsThese results compare favourably with published results from large international cooperative group trials based in developed countries. Continued local treatment with appropriate support from a dedicated specialist paediatric oncology unit is therefore justified.
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