Hamlet’s prophetic soul: an obscured myth?

Prophetic Medicine

It is well known that certain Islamic Jurists and Scholars like Imam Bukari, Imam Muslim, and Imam Tirmizi, did exhaustive research to collect the sayings and traditions of our beloved Prophet PBUH. They then presented their collected works as 'Al Hadith' of the Prophet to the populace. Not only were these authenticated, as to their degree of authenticity, but each of the witnesses, or the chai...

Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets

Objective: To identify barriers to accessing sexual health care among the Bangladeshi community of east London and to develop a model of community participation in service development. Methods: Qualitative study using one to one interviews with sexual health service users plus focus groups in community settings. Results: 58 people participated in the study, 12 in individual interviews and the r...

Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei and Obscured Accretion

Most of the local active galactic nucleus (AGN) population is obscured and much of the Xray background originates in obscured AGNs. The contribution of obscured accretion to the growth of massive black holes is discussed here. The recent identification of significant samples of the X-ray sources that dominate the X-ray background intensity has shown a redshift peak at 0.7–0.8, rather than the r...

Listening for prophetic voices in medicine.

Soul searching

It is perhaps surprising, given the contemporary eminence of neuroscience within biological research, that it was not appreciated until the 17th century that the brain might have an important function. A compelling new book by Carl Zimmer surveys the scientific, conceptual and political upheavals in England at this time as a backdrop to the major experimental work carried out by a little-known ...