From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

From Disease to Holiness: Religious-based health remedies of Italian folk medicine (XIX-XX century)

BACKGROUND The relationship between spirituality, religion and medicine has been recognized since antiquity. Despite large differences in their history, society, economy and cultures human communities shared a common belief that spirituality and religion played an important role in the healing of diseases. METHODS The study of religious remedies used by Italian folk medicine in order to treat...

Translation Peculiarities of the XIX Century Folk Texts Culturally Marked Vocabulary

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The paper starts with a brief review of some criticisms of the Peer Review system – labelled ex-ante topdown PR system – for the evaluation of academic works. The critiques are grouped into efficiency and effectiveness criteria. It then goes on to analyse the roles of Peer Review and how good the system is at fulfilling those roles. The paper then proposes an alternative system for evaluation o...