Cultura libre. Cómo los grandes medios usan la tecnología y la ley para encerrar la cultura y controlar la creatividad. Introducción

The present text published in the REMIX Zone of the Communiars Journal corresponds to the introduction of the famous book Free Culture, by Professor Lawrence Lessig, president of the Creative Commons organization, dedicated to promoting cultural access and exchange. The text “Free Culture. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity” is a book published in 2004 and focused on presenting another way of organizing culture and knowledge, opening the restrictions of the obsolete paradigm of copyright, and relying on the copyleft model promoted by free software. The introduction presented here translates the open spirit of a key text for the understanding and evolution of current cultural reality.El presente texto publicado en la Zona REMIX de la revista Communiars se corresponde con la introducción del afamado libro Cultura Libre, del profesor Lawrence Lessig, presidente de la organización Creative Commons, dedicada a promover el acceso e intercambio culturales. El texto «Free Culture. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity» (en español “Cultura Libre. Cómo los grandes medios usan la tecnología y la ley para bloquear la cultura y controlar la creatividad”) es un libro publicado en 2004 y centrado en presentar otra manera de organizar la cultura y el conocimiento, abriendo las restricciones del obsoleto paradigma del copyright, y apoyándose en el modelo copyleft promovido desde el software libre. La introducción que aquí se presenta traduce el espíritu abierto de un texto clave para la comprensión y evolución de la actualidad cultural

On the notion of home and the goals of palliative care

The notion of home is well known from our everyday experience, and plays a crucial role in all kinds of narratives about human life, but is hardly ever systematically dealt with in the philosophy of medicine and health care. This paper is based upon the intuitively positive connotation of the term “home.” By metaphorically describing the goal of palliative care as “the patient’s coming home,” it wants to contribute to a medical humanities approach of medicine. It is argued that this metaphor can enrich our understanding of the goals of palliative care and its proper objectives. Four interpretations of “home” and “coming home” are explored: (1) one’s own house or homelike environment, (2) one’s own body, (3) the psychosocial environment, and (4) the spiritual dimension, in particular, the origin of human existence. Thinking in terms of coming home implies a normative point of view. It represents central human values and refers not only to the medical-technical and care aspects of health care, but also to the moral context

Stress Adaptation

We thank our numerous friends and colleagues for stimulating discussions about stress adaptation. We are also grateful to the following institutions for generously supporting our research. A.J.P.B was funded by the European Research Council (STRIFE, ERC-2009-AdG-249793), the UK Medical Research Council (MR/M026663/1 and MR/N006364/1), the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BB/K017365/1), and the Wellcome Trust (080088; 097377). L.E.C. is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grants (MOP-86452 and MOP-119520), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Discovery Grants (06261 and 462167), an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (477598), a National Institutes of Health R01 Grant (R01AI120958), and a Canada Research Chair in Microbial Genomics and Infectious Disease. Work in the A.D.P. laboratory is funded by grants from the Spanish Ministerio de Innovación y Competitividad (BIO2013-47870-R), the European Commission (Marie Curie ITN FUNGIBRAIN; FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-607963), and the Junta de Andalucia (BIO296). J.Q. is funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (BB/K016939/1) and the Wellcome Trust (097377).Peer reviewedPostprin

Plenary Reponses and Questions

Dr. Adams leads a question and answer session on the church\u27s response to homosexuality