Stacey B. Day MD

A Collection of Graphic Works with commentary. Following World War II unquestioningly the direction set for Czech artists in 1946 was to harmonize with the philosophy augmented by the Bolshevik rise to power in Russia in October 1917 and was a continuation of the principle set forth in the Socialist Education of the People. In keeping with this fundamental ideology of the socialist concept, art now had to recapitulate a materialist view of the world. It was to serve a constructive role in the socialist education of the people. These graphics illustrate the conflict within the artist - under the duress of the times - a sort of "freedom - in - chains". This expression is in great contrast to art work in post World War II Western countries. Each graphic is accompanied by an essay written by the author, who was a close friend of Pliskova and her husband, the sculptor Karel Nepras .

The text is the first volume of letters to his wife from Calabar (they extended over a two year period) and were written at a time when communication facilities in West Africa were very poor. Even telephone communication with Lagos, the capital city of Nigeria, was extremely poor. Letters could take not merely days but WEEKS between passage of a letter and its receipt in the world extant. This situation led to virtual isolation from informed news. These letters witness changes in the writer's life that brought contrasts associated with anxiety and risk in his determination to introduce into medical education in Nigeria a broader understanding that passed beyond pure academic methodology and enhanced the concept of the patient as a person; SELF HEALTH and SELF HELP. The writer brought the BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL CONCEPT to Calabar and introduced it into the curriculum of the Medical School. The letters cover every aspect of University Life; Work in the BUSH and RAIN FOREST, and in the SAHEL, at LAKE CHAD. They describe disease and life of the rural people in a region once called the "WHITE MAN'S GRAVE".

The writer presents a mosaic integration of scientific and philosophical papers that have long characterized his work. The storms of campus life, especially during the Viet Nam era; the increasingly obtuse LYING in society, at all levels; the apparent insensitiveness in handling peoples; the increase in violence and inappropriate machine technology, and the moral and ethical problems increasing in contemporaneous societies have been the driving forces originating his spirit of inquiry. There is a clear effort to reconcile and integrate teachings of orthodox Western religious thought in harmony with the fundamental discipline which underlies the ethics and moral obligations of life in the East. For him the phrase "cultural exchange" is more than mere salon like association. Individuals from different races discern the reflected illumination of other cultures within their own Self-Being. Such reflected light is integrated forming a new WHOLENESS and shines forth in an understanding of true worth. It is in this way that international persons should behave, he believes.

The first presentation in the English language of the Hagakure (Spirit of Bushido) as Wisdom Literature. Bushido is the moral code of the samurai of Feudal Japan. As warriors (samurai) belonged to the highest of the four social classes of the day - bushi, farmers, artisans and merchants. The most significant teachings coming down to us now exist in the form of codes. There were three principal codes - Gorin Sho (Five Rings Precepts) of Miyamoto Musashi; the Budo Shoshin Sho (Rudiments of the Precepts of Samurai) by Yuzan Daidoji, and the Hagakure by Yamamoto Jocho of present day Saga, known during the Warring Ages Period as Hizen.

Features extensive coverage of all forms of stress and its effect on man. As a reference it provides vital information and aid in the medical field and in fields related to stress disorders It includes issues related to stress as a factor in human evolution; stress and animal models of disease; activation, emotion and stress; basic concepts in psychophysiological personality research; psychosocial stress and illness; biopsychosocial approaches to stress; the community and stress; stress and terrorism as a form of communication; life event changes. A special section is devoted to life stress and its influence on children, women, and families; child abuse; working women on the treadmill; violence against women; geriatric stress; rape victims, and ethnic stress.

Supplements first volume by focussing on medicine and related health fields from a holistic perspective. Includes diseases related to the biosphere and environment; diseases of the blood vessels; physiological and molecular perspectives relevant to clinical problems; racial equity in the health care fields; medical problems of high altitude and underwater exploration.

Features extensive coverage of the biological and clinical sciences. It is a reference book that provides key information without the need to search through countless volumes of texts. It is a source of reference valuable to students and others interested in the Life Sciences.

A pioneer book seeking to cover the widely divergent and critically complex, often undefined sub-threshold fields of knowledge, information, communications science, technology, policy, public health, social history, medical philosophy, engineering sciences, to say nothing of economics, management, legislative burden, professional, moral, and methodological interactions, as well as inclusions from consumer groups, health oriented citizen's views, patient organizations ( unions, social groups, social security agencies) all of whom are importantly concerned with the issues. One must include too professional bodies such as those that represent the medical professions, health related industries, and education and training institutions - University Medical Schools, Nursing Institutes, even the Armed Forces and Military Commands, which inter-relate upon matters of communication and health care delivery.

A symposium of papers on biological communications and life information systems.

Observations and Discussions as part of a TWO Nation USA - USSR Exchange Programme.