INCURABLE UNEMPLOYMENT: A PROGRESSIVE 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...

Emergency overcrowding: an incurable disease?

situation of the emergency department (ED) [1], highlighting common problems in diff erent countries that have remained unchanged and unresolved for decades [2]. Is there a solution to the collapse of emergency services or is it an incurable disease? Figure 1 shows the fl ows of input and output in an ED – modulating these fl ows can treat the problem. Th e clinician has no doubt that it is pos...

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

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...

Curing Incurable Alzheimer’s Disease with Medicinal Plants

Up to the present, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a dementia, is believed to be incurable; even its cause has not been documented. A few hypotheses have been postulated, however; among these are the destruction of acetylcholine by the enzyme acetylcholineesterase, the accumulation of amyloid beta plaque, and peroxidation of the brain cells. Since the disease was unknown in the olden days in Thailand...