Renaissance People. Lives That Shaped the Modern Age

The Renaissance beard: masculinity in early modern England.

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Connecting small enterprises in ways that enhance the lives of forest-dependent people

Some recommendations for how to connect small forest enterprises, not only to each other through associations, but also more broadly – to decision-makers, service providers and markets. F orest enterprise has been extensively examined as a means of alleviating the widespread poverty among forest-dependent people. When poverty alleviation is considered solely in terms of income generation, small...

Old age psychiatry in the modern age.

Old age psychiatry services globally are under threat. The discipline enjoyed its heyday in the two decades bridging the millennium. More recently there has been a move to integrate old age services with those of working age adults, to create 'ageless' services. Evidence is beginning to accumulate that this is a bad idea.

Anthropometric variance in humans: Assessing Renaissance concepts in modern applications

Visual analysis of human anatomical and segmental variation are valuable tools for analysing and modifying exercise positions for movement efficiency, health, and safety. The most widely known visual technique for determining whether a body segment is long, short, or normal is based on da Vinci’s 1487 Vitruvian Man. In the more than five centuries since, human height has changed. This pilot stu...

Self and similitude: translating difference (modern colonialism and renaissance conquests)