2000
Eurozine
2000
2010-03-31
Abstracts for 2000 12/2009
Viktoria Radics
Transformation of Montenegro
The Hungarian literary historian on Montenegro as a metaphor for the subsistence of little nations and states, the metonymy of self-defending vitality and the option of the postmodern national rebirth. The redefinition of national, cultural and state identity led to a multicultural, democratic state. How could be the anti-traditional, postmodernist intellectuality a collective force to gain national conscience? Has Montenegro any reason for existence?
The traditions of Crna Gora were denying its own identity in favor of the Serbian brotherhood: the national awakening has never demanded the own, sovereign state in the nineteenth century. The heroic traditions of Montenegro are useless for a civic morality on demand, on the other side it won't be recognized abroad due to the untranslatable national epic.
Endre Bojtar
The Litvaks
A short history of a special group of Ashkenazi Jews. Summary of the Lithuanian-Jewish cohabitation, the situation of the Jews from Jewish Golden Age in the Rzeczpospolita and in the independent Lithuania ("Vilna the Jerusalem of North") 'till the age of modern anti-Semitism. The Holocaust was more devastating (96% of the Litvaks were killed) in Lithuania than anywhere else.
Jozsef Kovacs
Porcupine or shark?
Dangers of interlocking industry and science on the American pattern. The corrupted scientific life cannot stand for a critical rationality and the profit oriented medicine is not for the patients' interest anymore. Ghostwriting, me too drugs, presents for the doctors and researchers, concealed curriculum and the censored publishing of the research outcomes -- symptoms of the interlock. It seems that we cannot find a medicinal system solving the medical conflicts of interest. Managing the conflicts of interest is a dance with the porcupine, is far too dangerous, says Kovacs, the relation of the industry with medicine is rather a swim with a shark. The only way to solve the conflicts is to separate business from science.
David L. Rosenhan
On being sane in insane places
The shortened version of Rosenhan's famous article on the problems of the psychiatric diagnoses and their stigmatizing effect. The psychiatric practice and its institutions are calling for review and reform. First published in Science (vol. 179., no. 4070, January 1973).