Burnout Syndrome: A Disease of Modern Societies?

A Comparative Study on the Status of Elderly In the Traditional and Modern Societies

Over the past two centuries, the rapid socio-economic transformations along with substantial advances in medicine have resulted in decrease of mortality rate, the significant increase of life expectancy, and the growth of the population aging. In despite of the increased proportion of elderly in the recent periods, their status has significantly decreased. Elderly in the traditional societies h...

Burnout at Work in Modern Times

The theme of this research is burnout at work in modern times. The main objective is to analyze aspects of mental health worker. The specific objectives are to evaluate the issue of health and mental illness in the workplace, to understand the field of psychodynamics of work, and to analyze the work and the mental strain. The methodology used is the literature review. We conclude that is not th...

The Significance of Traditional Islamic Art for the Life of Muslim Societies in the Modern World

[Metabolic syndrome: a modern variant of stress-related disease?].

Contagion: perspectives from pre-modern societies

and necromancy; and magic as entertainment. Readers of this journal will be particularly interested in her section on medical magic. Jolly explains that this was an especially "fuzzy" area. Medieval medicine embraced both a material and spiritual understanding of illness in which physical and religious factors played a part. Within this context, it is often difficult to distinguish magical medi...