Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been practiced and used in this country continuously since the nineteenth century.2 All of the forms of care present then are still present today including botanical medicine (“Thomsonians”), health food (“Grahamites”), homeopathy, hydrotherapy, healing touch (“mesmerists”), osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropracty, and Christian Science.3 In the 192...

1 Usage of Pre-Made Text-Modules and Peer-Groups for Mitigating Information Asymmetry in Social Lending: Evidence on Funding Success from German Platform Smava Arne Frerichs, Department of Application Systems and E-Business, Georg-August-Universität Gött ingen, Gött ingen, Germany Christian Michaelis, Department of Business Education and Human Resource Development, Georg-August-Universität Gött...

This paper is part of a series that focuses on DDI usage and how the metadata specification should be applied in a variety of settings by a variety of organizations and individuals. Support for this working paper series was provided by the authors‘ home institutions; by GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; by Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics; and by the DDI Alliance. ...

"Onanism," the term derived from Genesis 38:9-10 which in traditional Christian usage has designated both masturbation and unnatural intercourse between a man and woman, is not exactly a pleasant theme to write about. And in a sense, that fact itself is the short answer to those who claim that these sorts of acts are ethically indifferent or innocent. In other words, the spontaneous negative em...

The insistence that the prophets of Hebrew Bible were “forthtellers, not foretellers” is ubiquitous in academic, liberal Christian, and even secular circles. It categorically denies ancient Israel predicted future characterizes them instead as voices social critique. This article explains origins phrase, its philosophical religious underpinnings Protestant, Enlightenment, Romantic, “scientific”...