Die waarde van ’n christelike mensbeeld vir die geneeskunde

The serious crisis in which medical ethics finds itself at present can be regarded as a symptom of a deeper crisis surrounding contemporary man. Positivists hold the view that creation can be explained from itself Here the cultural mandate to man is unilaterally over-emphasized, and an effort is made to set man over all things as owner and free ruler, almost as if he were a god. The basis for ethical norms is destroyed, and a future of total control is envisaged. Transcendentists look for spiritual values above or outside the created, measurable things and rational thought. Man's freedom is over-emphasized. The so-called human dimension of human nature is sought. Various transcendentists have sought of ind the cause of the dilemma in rationalism and the autonomy of reason. The New Age propagates Eastern mysticism as a solution. The liberating perspective of the Bible represents man as the child of God. Man constitutes a unity of various facets, viz. physico-chemical, hereditary, hormonal, reflexive, psycho-sensitive, intellectual and religious. One facet cannot be reduced to the other (either upwards or downwards) or be deduced or developed from it. Each subsequent facet is an intimate intertwining of the characteristics of the previous facet. Ultimately the religious facet offers the full human meaning as being image carrier of God, steward and child of God. This is the meaning of Christ’s work, and this gives meaning to all the other facets, ranging from the intellectual to the physicochemical. This view constitutes a meaningful basis for medical and scientific ethics, meaning and normative freedom. Practical, testable hypotheses can be deduced from this in order to study the unity of man

Ek en alkohol, alkohol en ek: Fisiologiese aspekte

Wanneer is ’n mens besig om alkohol op ’n verantwoorde wyse te gebruik? Wanneer is ’n mens besig om alkohol te m isbruik? Hoe weet ’n mens wanneer vertoon jy die simptome van alkoholisme? Om hierdie vrae te kan beantwoord moet ’n mens jouself ken. In hierdie artikel word met die term alkohol bedoel, etielalkohol in die vorm waarin dit alledaags gebruik word

Navorsing en opleiding in die Departement Fisiologie en Biochemiese Navorsing

Die kultuuropdrag van die mens, nl. onderwerping en beheersing van die natuur, eis dat die mens deeglike en grondige kennis van die natuur moet hê. Hiervoor is nie net instandhouding van bestaande kennis noodsaaklik nie maar ook die ontwikkeling van nuwe kennis essensieel. Hieruit volg dus dat opleiding sowel as navorsing noodsaaklik is

Opleiding in omgewingskunde en bedryfshigiëne

Die mens staan in ’n besondere verhouding tot sy omgewing. Hy is deel van die omgewing maar is ook daarbuite. Hy neem deel aan al die wisselwerkings tussen die omgewing en homself maar hy beskik ook oor die vermoë om hom te isoleer en om die omgewing te verander, ten goede of ten kwade. Die mens het ’n roeping om die veranderinge in ’n sekere rigting te stuur, die regte rigting. Hiervoor is kennis nodig om die meganismes waarvolgens die wisselwerkings plaasvind te begryp en die koers waarheen gestuur moet word te kan bepaal

An assessment of the nutritive value of 'Multi-purpose food' (Formula C) in the treatment of convalescent Kwashiorkor patients

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The effect of diets containing milk fat and sunflower-seed oil on the levels on certain constituents in the blood serum of kwashiokor patients

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The incidence of certain strains of E. coli Shigella and Salmonella in Kwashiokor in the Pretoria area

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Nutritional marasmus in Bantu infants in the Pretoria area

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The ultra-low-frequency acceleration ballistocardiogram in relation to aortic flow and blood pressure

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The effect of milk fat and sunflower-seed oil on the diarrhoea, the nitrogen, the fat and mineral balance and the rate of recovery of kwashiorkor patients

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