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E Wolber

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PubMed2001

[An encounter with foreign parts is not the objective of the journey. The reality of the return].

It is not only the experience of the "outside", the self-chosen possibility of disarrangement, of moving away from previously-binding sensory structures that determines the transcultural experience. It depends much more on a second step, of returning to oneself-- having returned from foreign parts, to re-integrate oneself into one's own culture. This means that the journey itself into foreign areas, the encounter with medical and nursing systems of other cultures, is in fact only half the journey; the complete journey is one which returns back into one's own (nursing) culture. Only when the nurse has succeeded--after his/her return--in newly regarding his/her own nursing activity--that is, with different eyes--in an expanded context and in recognizing the resulting changes, has he/she reached the real objective of his/her journey.

Cross-Cultural Comparison↗
PubMed2000

Erythropoietin gene expression in different areas of the developing human central nervous system.

UNLABELLED: Evidence from cell culture and animal experiments suggests a neuroprotective and neurotrophic function of erythropoietin (EPO). We have quantitated the distribution of EPO mRNA expression in the developing human central nervous system (CNS). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Up to seven biopsies from different areas of the CNS of four preterm fetuses (gestational age 23-37 weeks) were obtained at routine postmortem examinations. EPO mRNA was quantitated by competitive PCR in samples from the CNS, the kidneys, and the liver where the EPO gene is predominantly expressed at this gestational age. RESULTS: EPO mRNA was most abundant in one sample from the cerebellum (0.29 amol/microg total RNA [amol=10(-18)mol]) and two from the pituitary gland (0.23 amol/microg total RNA), but levels varied considerably. EPO mRNA in the cortex cerebri (median 0.12 amol/microg total RNA; n=4) dominated over the expression in the corpora amygdala (median 0.05 amol/microg total RNA; n=4), the hippocampus (median 0.03 amol/microg total RNA; n=4), or the basal ganglia (median 0.01 amol/microg total RNA; n=3). Only little EPO mRNA (<0.01 and 0.06 amol/microg total RNA) was found in the spinal cord. EPO mRNA levels in the cerebellum, pituitary gland, or the cerebral cortex were within the same range as in the liver (0.03-1.67 amol/microg total RNA; n=4), or the kidneys (0.06-0.79 amol/microg total RNA; n=4). CONCLUSION: We found the EPO gene expressed throughout the fetal human CNS. Our data provide the basis to discuss a function for EPO in the brain of humans as well.

Central Nervous System↗
PubMed1998

[From the ritualized distance between nursing practice and nursing theory to eye-level contact].

Although the "social relationship" between care givers and care recipients should be one of the distinguishing features of care giving--in contradiction to medicine--there is in fact a clear need in practice and on a theoretical level for the professional to distance him-/herself from a physically or psychologically "other" person. In order to avoid this destructive situation whereby people are divided into categories such as healthy and ill, helping and in need of help, powerful and weak, knowledgeable and ignorant, a self-reflective process on the part of the caring profession needs to be set in motion. This would inevitably lead care givers to question their roles and behaviour as professionals which is a necessary step towards establishing a "social relationship" between care givers and care recipients. Only then can the experience of the care recipients and the professional knowledge of the care givers be regarded as of equal importance. No longer would care recipients be perceived as somehow different and needed to be kept at a distance by numerous rituals.

Ceremonial Behavior↗