Archivos de Ciencia e Investigación(ADCI)

Former Clinical Director, PA Program, Borra College of Health Sciences, Dominican University, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  Fracture Within Mercy: A Revision of Therapeutic Contraction
  Author(s): Julian Ungar-Sargon*
  
  Clinical teaching holds that limits express care — that declining the late call or ending the visit is a mature form of the disposition that makes a good physician. This paper argues that the claim is structurally false, that its falsity is costly, and that a body of eighteenth-century kabbalistic reasoning states the correct account more precisely than anything in the clinical literature. In Jonathan Eibeschütz's Wa-Avo ha-Yom el ha-Ayin, analysed by Elliot Wolfson, judgment cannot be derived from unbounded lovingkindness by ordinary causation, since an effect resembles its cause and one may not posit opposites in a simple subject; it must therefore be spoken of as yesh me-ayin, something from nothing. The same source holds that the catastrophic breaking of the vessels occurs within Attiqa, a configuration characterised as entirely merciful, precisely because no judgme.. Read More»
  

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