PAUL GIFFORD, Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa. London: C. Hurst & Company (pb £18.99 – 978 1 84904 477 6). 2015, 187 pp.

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Fungal infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised patients. Oral candidosis is the most common opportunistic infection in human patients infected with HIV and AIDS. , 2 Paralleling the increased prevalence of fungal infections has been the introduction of new antifungal agents and the recognition of resistance. The chronic use of azoles for prophylaxis in systemic...

George Makari, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (New York and London: Norton, 2015), pp. xvi, 656, $39.95, hardback, ISBN: 978-0-393-05965-6.

public financial resources to the latter areas and away from family planning services with uneven success. The author successfully navigates these overlapping layers of social, political and economic interest, and interprets the Peruvian experience in its particularities but also within patterns that emerged in Latin American–U.S. relations. In all of this and from multiple directions, A Histor...

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A religion usually is defined as a collection of beliefs about God and his relation with the universe and individual persons. There are many religions in the world, but I will deal only with the major world religions, which include Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The beliefs of these religions are documented in certain books, which are considered to be sacred and used for ...

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict, and Change, Edited by Lid King & Lorna Carson (2006), Multilingual Matters, ISBN-13 978-1-78309-477-6

Barbra Mann Wall, Into Africa: A Transnational History of Catholic Medical Missions and Social Change (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers Press, 2015), pp. xvii, 230, hardback, $49.95, ISBN: 978-0-8135-6622-1.

of evolutionary thinking in medicine before the 1990s. It may be that they are simply not interested in the history of medicine, although evolutionary biologists as a group are certainly historically astute. It may also be that evolutionary thinking in medicine in the first half of the twentieth century was dominated by eugenic considerations. But no one has much time for the long century betwe...