Folk medicine: Is the solution or problem?

Ambulant Market Foods: Consumer Problem or Solution?

  Background: The sale of food by street vendors is an activity of economic, sanitary, and nutritional importance, but these foods can pose a high risk to the health of consumers in inadequate conditions of preparation and storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the preparation conditions and the hygienic-sanitary quality of food sold by street vendors in the vicinity of four campuse...

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...

Commentary: Is capital the solution or the problem?

Simon Szreter of Cambridge University and Michael Woolcock of the World Bank and Harvard University have written an article, ‘Health by association? Social capital, social theory and the political economy of public health,’1 that is fairly representative of writings in the US and the UK on the fashionable concept of social capital. Their intent is to link the different uses made by public healt...

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...