There has been increasing interest in the normal blood pressures of isolated and unsophisticated communities in the last few years. In particular, several investigators have questioned whether the rise in blood pressure with increasing age which appears to be common to all "Western" peoples is universal for mankind, and they have suggested that this rise is due to the occurrence among Westerner...

“Indigenous cultural knowledge has always been an open treasure box for the unfettered appropriation of items of value to Western civilization. While we assiduously protect rights to valuable knowledge among ourselves, indigenous people have never been accorded similar rights over their cultural knowledge. Existing Western intellectual property laws support, promote, and excuse the wholesale, u...

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Obviously, the human diet has become progressively more divergent from those of our ancestors. This maladaptive change became apparent with the Industrial Revolution and has been accelerating in recent decades. In conjunction with this discordance between our ancient, genetically determined biology and the nutritional pattern, in contemporary Western populations, many of the so-called diseases ...

In the Anthropocene, debates about global climate risks have taken carbon as a measure of policy success, with land-based mitigation strategies like afforestation receiving particular scrutiny. While scientists and policymakers discuss forestry potential solution, China has been implementing massive projects for decades, drastically transforming environments under Ecological Civilization framew...

The sheer scope of the burden of acute ischemic heart disease, initially evident in Western civilization but now increasingly a global problem, places a high priority on understanding its pathophysiology and identifying individuals at increased risk of morbid and mortal events. So too is there strong impetus for the timely development and introduction of cost-effective therapeutic solutions cou...

The article contains a number of arguments defending the idea that Russian civilization is independent and separate explains conclusion current confrontation between Western civilizations essentially civilizational conflict.

For centuries in Western civilization, politicians, economists, psychologists and laypeople alike have assumed that the desirability of individual choice was inherent in humankind. From Mill to Locke, from Rousseau to Jefferson, choice has been hailed as an inalienable human right-an essential human need . . . . Might our theories of motivation require modification among people whose fundamenta...

Coronary atherosclerosis is the major cause of death in western civilization: one of every three in men as well as in women. It was shown that diets supplemented with moderate quantities of alcoholic beverages could lead to positive biochemical changes in blood of the consumers, which are regarded widely as indicators of improved prevention of atherosclerosis. This review summarizes the recent ...

Catalog Description: An introduction to the political, social, cultural, and economic events that distinguished Western Civilization from its earliest roots to the Thirty Years’ War (1648). Major topics include Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Reformation. Emphasis is placed on close readings of primary works, including literary and v...