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The truth will out: scientific pragmatism and the geneticization of race and ethnicity
No full textThis chapter sets out to understand why racial (and quasi-racial ethnic) categories continue to be used in contemporary genetic research despite sustained criticism from natural and social scientists
Introduction: Learning from HIV and AIDS: from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinarity
No full textDifferent professional and academic disciplines have addressed the HIV/AIDS pandemic from a variety of perspectives, using different analytical approaches. By bringing these together in one volume, Learning from HIV/AIDS provides a more complete picture of this multi-faceted disease - from the biological and social factors which facilitate HIV transmission - to the powerful cultural and political forces which fuel the pandemic. Chapters from contributors working on the aetiology, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS identify how their work has helped predict the spread of HIV and has improved the survival of those infected. Yet interventions to reduce the spread of HIV have had limited success, and few HIV-infected individuals have access to combination drug therapies. Written for students and researchers, and taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this book demonstrates that progress in developing effective and acceptable interventions can only be achieved through collaboration between the biological, medical and social sciences
SOME REMARKS ON TECHNIQUES APPLIED IN THE WALL-PAINTINGS IN ST. GEORGE ORTHODOX CHURCH AT VELIKO TURNOVO, BULGARIA
No full textThe author discusses and argues with some problems
dealt with by Z. Brochwicz and M. Dimitrova-Valkhova
in their article „The Structure of the 17-t.h —
Century Mural Paintings in St. George Orthodox
Church at Weliko Turnovo, Bulgaria” that appeared
in „Ochrona Zabytków” vol. XXV, 3, 172, pp. 143—
159.
The discussion has been focused on the claim that the
paintings were executed on dry plaster support. Making
use of his own experience and quoting the old
written sources the author attempts to prove the
incorrectness of conclusions made by the authors of
the afore-mentioned work
Income Inequality, Social Trust, and Self‐Reported Health Status in High‐Income Countries
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Oriental enlightenment: the problematic military experiences and cultural claims of Count Maurice Auguste comte de Benyowsky in Formosa during 1771
No full textMaurice Benyowsky's colourful version of his global adventures during the heady, expansive days of the late-Enlightenment remains still as an historical account, and is perhaps destined for reification at a time of romantic, postmodernist cultural affirmation. Yet this paper argues that within it there lies a virile and possibly dangerous Orientalism, one at least partially based upon a lurid, opportunistic and self-seeking fabrication of his visit to Taiwan (Formosa) in the year 1771. This paper examines the veracity, provenance and historiography of the Benyowsky account of late-eighteenth century Formosa, both as an exercise in one facet of Taiwanese history and as some exploration of the origin and maintenance of European views of the "other" and of the "orient" as they were transforming during the late-Enlightenment period. Furthermore a principal task is to provide an historiographical analysis that illustrates both the initial reasons for the acceptance of Benyowsky's lurid account as well as the wider contexts of its long life as a seemingly reliable and authentic tale. Questions remain as to the cultural contexts of any general acceptance of otherwise doubtful stories, experiments, claims and "adventures". Here there is little doubt that the original Memoirs were given greater credence by Benyowsky's talent in self-fashioning his character and status as those of a reliable gentleman
Palliative care stress in a UK community hospital: evaluation of a stess-reduction programme
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