To cite: Smith L. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:69–70. BACKGROUND For over a century, between 1540 and 1654, one piece of medical literature, The Byrth of Mankynde, was what would now be described as a bestseller and a huge commercial success. This is hardly surprising, as its contents offered information on some of the secrets of the human body that could transform the fortunes of the...

In this paper we present an outline of the MANKIND project: MANKIND is an acronym for Multimedia Applied to Networked Knowledge-transfer Introduces New Dimensions. It is an ambitious undertaking that combines know-how obtained through extensive research and efforts in network based training and education with work on digital libraries and the development of the advanced WWW server system Hyperw...

Humanity is but a passing episode in the eternal life of the virus Abstract We deene a two-player virus game played on a nite cyclic digraph G = (V; E). Each vertex is either occupied by a virus, or is unoccupied. A move consists of moving a virus from some u into a selected neighborhood N (u) of u, while devouring every virus in N (u), and replicating in N (u), i.e., placing a virus on all ver...