IT IS a well-known fact that the bubonic plague was the source of many works of painting, sculpture, graphic arts and architecture and that it was the theme of important works of literature and drama from the fourteenth century to the baroque period. Like all communal catastrophes since time immemorial, the plague was held to be the wages of individual or communal sin. Expiation, invocation of ...

Peptic ulcer disease is a serious disorder aVecting many people and carrying substantial morbidity and even mortality as a result of bleeding or perforation. 2 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori as its main aetiological factor is a major breakthrough in gastroenterology. We can cure patients that before were suVering from a chronic recurrent ailment. After curing the infection, H pylori assoc...

Amani was a 24-year-old woman in her second year of nursing school in Jerusalem. She lived with her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and six older brothers, who had emigrated from Syria more than 10 years earlier. They are religious Muslim Arabs who lived in an Arab village not far from our cancer center in Jerusalem. For more than a year, Amani had experienced symptoms of ...

Marx and Freud pointed out our blindness about the unconscious causes of individual and collective behavior. Their revolutionary intent was to liberate humanity by taking conscious control. Jaspers' evaluation of historical materialism and psychoanalysis turns on the contested relations between objectivity and subjectivity and science and philosophy. He tracks their two systems through stages: ...

Peptic ulcer disease is a serious disorder aVecting many people and carrying substantial morbidity and even mortality as a result of bleeding or perforation. 2 The discovery of Helicobacter pylori as its main aetiological factor is a major breakthrough in gastroenterology. We can cure patients that before were suVering from a chronic recurrent ailment. After curing the infection, H pylori assoc...

Organizational citizenship behavior becomes one of the important factors that enhance the organizational effectiveness. The main purpose of this study was to explore the importance of OCB of universities teachers of Pakistan as the outcome of organizational commitment. In this study the impact of training & development opportunities, work-life policies and empowerment practices on organizationa...

As a basis for prioritizing the allocation of financial and other resources targeted for international development, the strong preference of the global community’s policy makers and donors is to rely on numbers. Metrics such as DALYS (disability-adjusted life years—the number of healthy life years lost either from death or disability) or DALYs averted per dollar provide highly useful informatio...

As the author explains at start of this hefty study, much ink has been expended over last half century in elucidating Augustine's account human will, assessing its development and cogency, originality or indebtedness to earlier writers, particular Stoic philosophers. Since Albrecht Dihle's 1981 book The Theory Will Classical Antiquity, scholars including Anthony Kenny, Carol Harrison, Richard S...

ConstellationsVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 19-33 CRITIQUE OF THE COLONIAL PARADIGM Al-e Ahmad, guardianship, and the critique of colonial sovereignty Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Corresponding Author Sadeghi-Boroujerdi [email protected] Department Politics International Relations at Goldsmiths, University London, UK Correspondence New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. Email: protected]Search for more papers...