For the surveys of traditional plant uses, detailed questionnaires were used; these included questions about plant origin, vernacular name, illness category, recipe formulation, pricing, and quantities sold. The authors decided to maintain traditional illness categories given by the informants, rather th...
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In today’s era of globalization, the concept of healthcare transcends geographical boundaries, offering patients a world of possibilities to explore for their medical needs. Medical tourism, the practice of traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, has emerged as a dynamic and rapidly growing ...
“I agree that, under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the abortion statutes of Georgia and Texas impermissibly limit the performance of abortions necessary to protect the health of pregnant women, using [410 U.S. 208] the term health in its broadest medical context. See United S...
The big takeaways here: public universities are state actors; faculty have academic freedom rights to discuss questions of scholarly interest, to research to teach without political interference; and college students have full First Amendment rights when they are on campus, they don't check those ...
Questions about more recent censuses often arise, but there’s no equivalent source. The 1939 register is often mistaken for a census, but it’s a separate resource with less information. The UK Census is a goldmine for genealogists and history enthusiasts. It provides unique insights into the...
Frank’s is an interesting and certainly humane viewpoint, yet it leads to all sorts of questions. Does the idea of adolescence and maturation even make any sense when applied to our species? If anything, doesn’t history shows the development of civilization to be cyclical rather than progres...
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death is Brenna Hassett’s new book which explores the impact of urban living on our bodies and health throughout human history. Brenna Hassett, a bioarchaeologist for London’s Natural History Museum, wants to analyze the way that human’s ...
But he could answer simple questions such as what was his name, age, etc. His face was grey-white in color. He was mumbling incoherently. Rich’s patrol had brought John down from the accident scene some distance over a snowfield in a rope litter. But I felt John’s condition to be...
But they also stir up consideration of ethical questions around vegetarianism, the necessity for the suffering of living beings, and the negative environmental impact of traditional agriculture. The snobbishness evinced against faux foods is at times reversed, with one Jack Vance character, an ...