Genocide and its aftermath

Flixborough: the Disaster and Its Aftermath

Contesting Community: Legalized Reconciliation Efforts in the Aftermath of Genocide in Rwanda

In recent decades, national governments and international authorities have increasingly emphasized the role of legal institutions in restoring order after political violence. This study explores how, following the 1994 genocide, the Rwandan government created new decentralized grassroots legal forums that aimed to produce community out of a divided population. The legal institutions were design...

Ethics, equity and genocide.

India is one of the most inequitable societies on earth, and certainly when its size is taken into consideration, we are responsible for a sizeable proportion of the sum total of human misery on this planet. As health professionals, we have access to data that goes beyond the Dandekars and Tendulkars and Arjun Senguptas, and which we can read off the bodies of our study subjects. We have become...

Darwin's conversion: the Beagle voyage and its aftermath.

The issue o f how and when Charles Darwin became an evolutionist has long fascinated his biographers. Such historical curiosity is hardly surprising; for, without his own conversion, the orthodox young Darwin who once intended to become a clergyman would never have gone on to inspire the scientific revolution that now bears his name. Intimately associated with Darwin's conversion is the story o...

Neonatal Salvage and Its Aftermath: The Technology Dependent Child

It is estimated that of the 3.7 million babies born each year in the United States, approximately 7 to 10% are at increased risk of death or lifelong impairment. They include the extremely premature infant, full-term low-birth weight infant, neurologically and severely traumatized infant, and the infant born with metabolic and/or congenital abnormalities. Tremendous progress in the care, and co...