the early twentieth-century nationalist discourse in iran reviled, on the one hand, a qajar hegemony on account of an exhausted “manifest destiny,” and lauded, on the other, a discourse of masculinity that assumed moral responsibility to protect the imaginary “geobody” of iran. in this paper i examine how this discourse of patriotism resonates through mehdi akhavan-sales’s poem “this autumn in ...

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Over the past 50 years the short term outcome of kidney transplantation has improved significantly but maintaining the graft long term has remained a challenge (1). Today, with the help of calcineurin inhibitors, we are able to keep the acute rejection rates low (less than 10%) (2). However, we have very few weapons i...

All meetings on the human genome include at least one talk, and often an entire session, devoted to discussing the ethical, social and legal aspects of genome research. The questions are always the same. If it is true that we can read the futures of people from their genes, should we be doing genome research? And, if we are going ahead anyway, what will be the consequences for society? Some yea...