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The section on states of being is intended to provide understanding of health and disease in the context of “opposites” in the sciences and arts. In the world of physics, chemistry, and mathematics, units that are equal and oppposite are “relatively” absolute. Thus for example negative and positive are the extreme opposites. In the world of art, literature, dance, biology, and medicine, oppposites are relative.
Positive and Negative |
| 84154b04.698 positive and negative extreme states black and white Davidoff art Davidoff MD |
Black and White
Biology and Medicine – Not so Black and White |
| 84164c01 thumbs up thumbs down health disease negative positive order disorder positive negative not so good not OK state of things Davidoff photography Davidoff art Davidoff MD |
 
Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down |
| 84163.800 84164p.800 thumbs up health positive order alright OK state of things Davidoff photography Davidoff art Davidoff MD |
 
Heaven and Hell |
| 83664.800 heaven Arielle dance 2007 Newton Mass photography 81355pb02.801 Laren Netherlands Holland devils ghosts hell Davidoff photography |
Dignity rising from Hell |
| 80306p.800 Davidoff sculpture |
Broken and Fixed |
| 46806 bone hand metacarpal fx fracture dx boxer’s fracture position alignment post pinning X-ray plain film Davidoff MD Davidoff MD |
Biologic Units in Order and Disorder – from the Country to the Cell
Cities and Towns – Order and Disorder
The struggles for the positives of life occur in our day to day life in our cities and towns and among our people.
 
City in Order and City in Disorder |
| 57694.800 city johannesburg Linksfield ridge suburbs city skyscrapers trees hill Davidoff photography
57787.800 shanty town city home Cape Town slum corrugated iron house disorder Davidoff photography |
Children in Health and Disease
A Body Part in Health and Disease
A Foot in Health and Disease |
| This first image reveals a normal right foot and the devastating manifestations of aberrant glucose metabolism in the second image. as a result of insulin insufficiency, with consequent effects on the small vessels throughout the body. In this instance the diabetic arteriopathy is characterised by calcific atherosclerotic diease seen as calcification of the digital artery with subsequent ischemia to the foot. The poor nutrition has resulted in infection and ulceration of skin and bone, with poor healing and a need to amputate irrecovarable tissues.
48655.c01 bone foot feet tarsals tarsal bones cuneiform cuboid talus navicular calcaneus tibia fibula normal anatomy applied biology X-ray plain film foot phalanx phalanges toes digital artery bone fx amputation calcified calcification of arteries dx diabetic arteriopathy chronic ischemia complicated by ulceration infection osteomyelitis treated with amputation diabetes mellitus plain X-Ray of the foot Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD 48471c01 |
Leaves in Health and Disease |
| 83323c01 leaf health disease red spots shade sun relative youth aged elderly smooth edges rough edges Bahamas Davidoff photography |
Health and a Flower in Trouble |
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84187p flower tiger lily order disorder health disease strangulation by morning glory space creeper Davidoff photography |
Cells in Health and Disease
 
Cells in Health and Disease |
| .Courtesy Ashley Davidoff MD. |
 
The Revolution – A nation goes from from disorder to order 230 years later |
| 84049p.801 American militia Concord Massachusetts The beginning of the American Revolution resistance along the Battle Road Trail extending from Lexington to Concord Minute man National Historical Park Reenactment July 3rd 2007 in the fields of Hartwell tavern Davidoff photography
77197p.801 July 4th 2005 Independance day 230 years later order health thriving surviving happy healthy Newton Massachusetts Davidoff photography Davidoff MD |