Chains of Negotiations: Navigating between Modernity and Tradition

Between Tradition and Modernity

History of Medicine between tradition and modernity

History of medicine is an extensive and very complex science. In a simple and classical understanding, it has an informative and associative role. Although it is not easy for students to understand the multiple implications of the history of medicine, its importance becomes more evident during their academic formation. The students must be persuaded particularly about the ethical and cultural v...

Tradition, modernity, and Italian babies.

While demography has made many valuable contributions to the analysis of contemporary demographic reversals, the discipline seems as far as ever from explaining the dynamics of fertility change. Commentaries on “populations” routinely link fertility control and small families with progress, modernity, and western values; in “traditional” societies, fertility regulation is left to chance, God, a...

The Family in Israel: Between Tradition and Modernity

This article provides a review of family patterns and lifestyles within Israeli society consisting of trends in marriage, divorce and fertility, dating, mate selection, marital relationships, and marital dissolution. Additional topics consist of parenting and the place and role of children in families, elderly and their families, gender issues, division of labor, power in families, and the impa...

Mead production: tradition versus modernity.

Honey is a natural product with recognized physical and chemical properties, which contribute to its biological activity. However, honey is currently being sold at low prices, making it imperative to find alternatives to make apiculture a viable national enterprise. One of these alternatives could be mead production. Despite the excellent properties of honey, mead production faces several probl...