The major question we might ask at a conference on the Digital Migration is: has the digital revolution improved the quality of our cultural output? But my guess is we won’t touch this question. We are such techno-utopians that the very idea that the cornucopia of digital choice is not advancing the culture is slanderous. But I believe we are in a cultural crisis and part of it is the fault of ...

In the spring of 1928 a doctor entered a remote village in southern Kazakhstan. Like hundreds of other physicians sent to the region, he came bearing information about germ theory, disease transmission, and ways to improve the Kazakhs’ health and well-being. He found a world very different from his own. Lying south of Siberia and east of the Caspian Sea, these arid steppes bore no resemblance t...

Speaking at the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock pointed out that the advent of the genomic revolution brings with it important societal, political, and social issues that have the potential to radically change both human life and interaction.

When China turned its back on the Cultural Revolution, it aimed to build a thriving capitalist sector. It got one. Now, it wants a world-class research enterprise. How far has it progressed in the biosciences, how did it get there, and how far does it have to go?

Multimedia technologies have recently created the conditions for a true revolution in the Cultural Heritage domain, particularly in reference to the study, exploitation, and fruition of artistic works. New opportunities are arising for researchers in the field of multimedia to share their research results with people coming from the field of art and culture, and viceversa. This paper gathers to...

There was never a clear interpretation of modern architecture in Chinese history. Socialism ended five thousand years of feudalism. Cultural Revolution wiped out any sense of cultural continuity. The sudden return of market economy flooded the country with Western influence. These drastic social changes provided the driving force for a new national identity. However, the rapidly economic growth...

Four theories about cultural suppression of female sexuality are evaluated. Data are reviewed on cross-cultural differences in power and sex ratios, reactions to the sexual revolution, direct restraining influences on adolescent and adult female sexuality, double standard patterns of sexual morality, female genital surgery, legal and religious restrictions on sex, prostitution and pornography, ...

When social scientists began analyzing the socio-cultural impact of the Internet, health emerged as one of the areas in which the Internet has become a key means of communication and cultural expression. It is no exaggeration to say that the Internet is bringing about a structural transformation of the cultural practices and organization of health systems. This is the so-called online revolutio...