Exhibition of the Kevorkian collection : including objects excavated under his supervision : exhibited at the galleries of Charles of London ... New York, March-April, 1914.

Cover title: Exhibition of Muhammedan-Persian art.

The Right to Die Debate: The Demonization of Dr. Kevorkian and the Creation of a Moral Panic Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide in the United States

The Right to Die Debate is a recent but highly controversial moral matter. In particular, physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is an issue that has been evaded by the medical community for years. As of 1990, most states had never encountered the issue before and therefore did not have any laws in place to prohibit PAS (Strate et. al, 2005). Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist from Royal Oak Michigan was the first to publicly address PAS. He brought the issue into the limelight through a bizarre and crude series of assisted deaths that had a lasting impact on not only the Right to Die Debate as whole, but on public policy and both federal and state governmental agendas. This study focuses on the way in which the media, in particular the New York Times (NYT) has portrayed Dr. Jack Kevorkian as incompetent, morally culpable and in an overall negative light in the past twenty years. Applying Stanley Cohen’s 1972 theory of moral panic, a content analysis of NYT media publications between 1990 and 1999 supports Cohen’s theory and reveals that the media has created a moral panic surrounding Kevorkian. This has in turn led to public policy that prevents both terminally ill individuals and their doctors from having a desirable choice; that of voluntary euthanasia and PAS.

Group of photos of the Kevorkian family, 1922-1938, depicting Jack Kevorkian as a child, his sisters Flora and Margo as children, and their parents.

Group photo of Levon and Satenig Kevorkian (Jack Kevorkian's parents), his sisters Flora and Margo, Jack Kevorkian as a teenager and a child, and Satenig Kevorkian.

Business card "Kevorkian M.E.R.C.Y. Amendment"

Jack Kevorkian's business card. Card has a printed message "Kevorkian M.E.R.C.Y. Amendment. Moment Ensuring the Right to Choose for Yourself." Contact information is indicated on the card.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise

A photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise

Verso of a photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise

Photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony. Poor quality.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise (verso)

Verso of a photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise

Photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony. Unidentified people in the background. Poor quality.

Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise

Verso of a photo of Jack Kevorkian and Tom Cruise, taken by a cell phone during the 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony.

Jack Kevorkian's 2010 Emmy Awards ceremony ticket

2010 Emmy Awards ceremony ticket

The international society for bipolar disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar diosrders

Objective:
The risk-benefit profile of antidepressant medications in bipolar disorder is controversial. When conclusive evidence is lacking, expert consensus can guide treatment decisions. The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) convened a task force to seek consensus recommendations on the use of antidepressants in bipolar disorders.

Method:  
An expert task force iteratively developed consensus through serial consensus-based revisions using the Delphi method. Initial survey items were based on systematic review of the literature. Subsequent surveys included new or reworded items and items that needed to be rerated. This process resulted in the final ISBD Task Force clinical recommendations on antidepressant use in bipolar disorder.

Results:  
There is striking incongruity between the wide use of and the weak evidence base for the efficacy and safety of antidepressant drugs in bipolar disorder. Few well-designed, long-term trials of prophylactic benefits have been conducted, and there is insufficient evidence for treatment benefits with antidepressants combined with mood stabilizers. A major concern is the risk for mood switch to hypomania, mania, and mixed states. Integrating the evidence and the experience of the task force members, a consensus was reached on 12 statements on the use of antidepressants in bipolar disorder.

Conclusions:
Because of limited data, the task force could not make broad statements endorsing antidepressant use but acknowledged that individual bipolar patients may benefit from antidepressants. Regarding safety, serotonin reuptake inhibitors and bupropion may have lower rates of manic switch than tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants and norepinephrine-serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The frequency and severity of antidepressant-associated mood elevations appear to be greater in bipolar I than bipolar II disorder. Hence, in bipolar I patients antidepressants should be prescribed only as an adjunct to mood-stabilizing medications.

La renovación de la palabra en el bicentenario de la Argentina : los colores de la mirada lingüística

El libro reúne trabajos en los que se exponen resultados de investigaciones presentadas por investigadores de Argentina, Chile, Brasil, España, Italia y Alemania en el XII Congreso de la Sociedad Argentina de Lingüística (SAL), Bicentenario: la renovación de la palabra, realizado en Mendoza, Argentina, entre el 6 y el 9 de abril de 2010. Las temáticas abordadas en los 167 capítulos muestran las grandes líneas de investigación que se desarrollan fundamentalmente en nuestro país, pero también en los otros países mencionados arriba, y señalan además las áreas que recién se inician, con poca tradición en nuestro país y que deberían fomentarse. Los trabajos aquí publicados se enmarcan dentro de las siguientes disciplinas y/o campos de investigación: Fonología, Sintaxis, Semántica y Pragmática, Lingüística Cognitiva, Análisis del Discurso, Psicolingüística, Adquisición de la Lengua, Sociolingüística y Dialectología, Didáctica de la lengua, Lingüística Aplicada, Lingüística Computacional, Historia de la Lengua y la Lingüística, Lenguas Aborígenes, Filosofía del Lenguaje, Lexicología y Terminología.

Group photo, 1939

Group photo dated 1939. Back row left to right: Ma, Sally, Beverly. Front row, left to right: Alice, Jack Kevorkian, and Flora Kevorkian.