Praying for Rain?: Reformed Perspectives from the Southern African Context

New Perspectives on the Therapeutics of Traditional Psychoactive Plant Medicines from Southern African and Upper Amazonia

The use of psychoactive plants in southern African traditional medicine has been a neglected area of ethnobotanical research. However, recent reviews have demonstrated the significance of psychoactive plant medicines in the healing practices of the southern African traditional healers, and ethnopharmacological studies indicate numerous species of southern African plants with psychotropic activi...

Changes and Perspectives from the Italian Context

During recent years radical changes have affected universities in most Western European countries, implying new pressures and demands on higher education systems and deeply influencing the context in which universities operate. The paper attempts to investigate governance issues and the need for new strategic paths emerging as a result of changed scenarios. Specifically, the greater number of s...

African Marriage Systems: Perspectives from Evolutionary Ecology

On Defining African Philosophy: History, Challenges, and Perspectives

Wastage in the health workforce: some perspectives from African countries

BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa faces a human resources crisis in the health sector. Over the past two decades its population has increased substantially, with a significant rise in the disease burden due to HIV/AIDS and recurrent communicable diseases and an increased incidence of noncommunicable diseases. This increased demand for health services is met with a rather low supply of health worker...