Archaic Elements Of Folk Medicine In Kars

Archaic Elements of Computer - mediated Communication

Virtual seminars as a form of tele-learning are becoming a well-established instructional form within universities and educational offers for adults. The critical gist of many virtual seminar projects are two problem sets, typical for tele-learning applications: low media-competence and low participation rates. During a virtual seminar, based at the University of Goettingen and at the Rensselae...

The Folk Medicine Culture of Yazd Jews

Background: The current population of the Yazd Jews is the survivors of a very large and ancient congregation of this people in central Iran. The long inhabitancy of this people in Yazd during the history of Islamic Iran, on one hand, and the current small numbers of these people, demonstrates the necessity of a comprehensive ethnography of this population. The present study aims to collect, st...

Sicilian folk medicine

American folk medicine

The Revolutionary period did (after some hesitation by those who dreamed of a society without hospitals) bring about the conversion of the main houses of Christian care for the sick poor in the large urban centres (Hotels-Dieu, Charite's, and Hopitaux Ge'neraux) to medical institutions concerned with the study and treatment of disease. The process of medicalization of Paris hospitals has been w...

A History of Medicine. Volume I: Primitive and Archaic Medicine

Two earlier trips, one to Delaware, where Nuttall contracted malaria, and one to Niagara Falls and Ontario paved the way for the travels recounted in this diary. Nuttall's 1810 expedition, the first months of which are described in the diary, was unquestionably undertaken for Barton at his expense. The route, objectives, and full terms of agreement were set down in detail by Barton. Nuttall, co...