Black Print Culture before Plessy

Editor's note: pharmacological reviews to publish online before print

The Emergence of Print Culture in the West

The advent of printing in the fifteenth century was a complicated innovation which involved a cluster of different changes. The consequences of this innovation appear to be even more variegated and remarkably elusive. Attempts to encapsulate the effects of printing in a single formula or thesis statement are almost always misleading. Take, for example, the observation by one authority that the ...

Black Church Culture and Community Action

Cultural theory posits that social groups possess a cultural repertoire or “tool kit” that reflects beliefs, ritual practices, stories and symbols that provide meaning and impetus for resource mobilization. However, little research based on quantitative techniques has been forwarded relative to the relationship between longstanding Black Church cultural components – specifically, scripture, son...

Impact of mouth rinsing before sputum collection on culture contamination.

Sputum culture is more sensitive than smear microscopy for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and facilitates the performance of drug susceptibility testing. Initiatives are underway in high burden countries to expand capacity for sputum culture to improve TB case detection and patient care. Contamination by other bacteria and fungi is a limitation of sputum culture despite laboratory decontaminatio...

4 The Primate Mind before Tools , Language , and Culture