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Using Medical Analogies to Convey Complex Ideas.
Family Practice News
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February 15, 2001|
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ALBUQUERQUE -- Physicians and their patients sometimes seem like... strangers standing on opposite shores.
And medical analogies can serve as ... bridges that span the clinical divide.
In fact, the use of medical analogies is a powerful teaching tool that every physician should use to improve communication with patients, Dr. Terry S. Ruhl said at a conference on patient education that was sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Communicating with patients about complex medical issues is ...
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The conservative critique of social engineering.
Magazine article from: The American Enterprise
; ...systematic city planner, the eccentric Hippodamus of Miletus, who formulated a detailed...reserves his harshest criticism for Hippodamus's advocacy of a law honoring those...political change will surely undermine. Hippodamus characteristically divided everything...
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Street savvy Should streets connect or protect? A 2,500-year-old argument may finally reach a solution
Newspaper article from: The Gazette
; ...In 450 B.C., the Greek architect Hippodamus designed the first city ever laid out...neighborhood." THROWN FOR A LOOP At first, Hippodamus' grid was a colossal hit. The Greeks...Urbanists say it's time to return to Hippodamus' grid. "We'll never go back to...
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Gun control and the regulation of fundamental rights.
Magazine article from: Criminal Justice Ethics
; ...derivative. Aristotle drives home the point in his critique of Hippodamus. His comments deserve careful attention. Aristotle attacks...without diminishing citizenship for those disabled: The city of Hippodamus was composed of 10,000 citizens divided into three parts...
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Greek style architecture found in ancient Iranian City
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...archaeological sites of the city remain. "The design is loaned from Hippodamus style of urban planning during a series of armed conflicts...Asadi, archeologist and expert on the archeology of Istakhr. Hippodamus (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect and urban...
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Structures inspired by ancient Greek architecture found in Iran
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...Sassanid period (226-651 CE). "The design is loaned from Hippodamus' style of urban planning during a series of armed conflicts...Asadi, archeologist and expert on the archeology of Istakhr. Hippodamus (498 BC - 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect and urban...
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Search for utopia: planners are constantly looking for ways to design our cities that will banish their social evils.
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder
; ...main roads. The first name that crops up in this field is Hippodamus of Miletus, known as the father of town planning. Three...emphasized geometry in his designs. The Romans were fans of Hippodamus' ideas and built all their communities along a grid pattern...
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Aristotle's science of the best regime. (response to Robert C. Bartlett, American Political Science Review, vol. 88, p. 143, 1994)
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review
; ...location, i.e., to chance" (p. 146), he does not similarly point out that every defect in the plans of Socrates, Hippodamus, and Phaleas that Aristotle discusses is traceable to a failure to understand the limits of reason. Nor does he mention...
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ARISTOTLE: POLITICS, BOOKS I AND II.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Philosophical Review
; ...sharp and important criticisms of four ideal states proposed by others (Plato in the Republic and in the Laws, Phaleas, and Hippodamus) and three actual states widely regarded as well structured (Sparta, Crete, and Carthage). In his introduction, Saunders...
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Book reviews: Ideal Cities: Utopian visions of an ideal home
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; ...castle in the air: the original "cloud cuckoo land". One of the real- life figures satirised here is the town planner Hippodamus, whose "ideal cities" included Piraeus. Visitors to the chaotic modern suburb of Athens are apt to share Aristophanes...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Been waiting long? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...many U.S. towns? THE first street grid systems in history were those built by the ancient Greek architect and philosopher Hippodamus of Miletus who, in the 5th century BC, developed his system of town planning in parts of Greece. A particularly fine example...
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