THE FACES OF SELF IN THE PUBLIC MIRROR
Which is the meaning of the right to own image of a person in the present day “image society”? How much is still private and how the legal protection is assured? How to keep the balance between the desire of privacy and the right to free information based on public (or private) interest? These are only few questions that I intend to answer from a human rights perspective.
Corpul, o metaforã a mintii/ The Body, A Metaphor of Mind
This paper attempts to explain the theory of the body as seen by I.P. Culianu. Thus, starting from the idea that the soul is full of body – which is motivated by theories in the domain of fashion – through which the body is that which assumes the defining symbolic charge of the spirit which inhabits it. Reversing the order of things, if one looks in the latter portions of the vast work of I.P. Culianu the perspective may be found according to which the body, even if not full of the soul, may at least be defined as a prolongation of the mind, that is, as the real engine of history and culture.
A Rapid Method for the Extraction of Radioiodide from Urine
THE extraction of radioiodide from urine is important in radioiodide therapy, since without it the large quantities of highly radioactive urine which accumulate must be stored until the activity decays sufficiently to allow disposal.