StevenseJohnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are severe life-threatening reactions characterized by epidermal detachment and mucositis. These reactions are predominantly drug-related. Although a wide spectrum of medications have been reported to be causal in these reactions, the international caseecontrol SCAR (severe cutaneous adverse reactions)1 and EuroSCAR2 studies ha...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Chastity belts Chastity belts have been the subject of schoolroom and music hall humour for as long as most of us can remember. But did they really exist and for the purpose suggested? My research started in 2004 with the purchase of a steel chastity belt (Figures 1 and 2). Made of solid steel with sharp spikes on the groin area, padlock plus k...

Franciscan Conversion: Turning Toward the Truly Good Krijn Pansters (bio) 1. Religious Conversion The year 2019 marked 900 years ago since Francis of Assisi’s visit to Egypt Sultan Al-Kamil and speak him about Christ. All around world, people celebrated this important event as a groundbreaking Christian-Muslim encounter, often seen first example or one earliest forms interreligious dialogue.1 N...

Media and news agencies often call psychiatrists and psychologists and pose questions about mental illness (a worthy topic) or some inane but catchy topic (such as the one I received from a reporter asking, with a straight face, “How do you diagnose people who talk to themselves?”). Big news about crimes, and especially terrorism, may push psychiatrist interviews from the local feature to the c...

byzantine iconography, due to the theoretical content ruling on it, has provided a close and fundamental link with christian theology and the resolutions ruling on it, especially the most fundamental ones, namely incarnation of word in the form of picture. however, this artistic form has been able to show a good reflection of many aspects of the social life and even the popular beliefs of its s...

Agricultural development thinking has gone through several stages of fad and fancy, often without an understanding of previous fallacies. Its current doldrums are unfortunate given the unrivaled importance of agricultural development for poverty reduction in most development countries. After reviewing several policy and program areas, lessons are synthesized, and a forward-looking research fram...

In the 1970s, schoolchildren in Czechoslovakia were taught that as far back as the year 965, an itinerant Arab merchant recorded the existence of the city of Prague to the outside world. Two things were left out of the lesson. First, the merchant, Ibrahim ibn Jakub, was an Arabian Jew. Second, ibn Jakub recorded the existence not only of the city itself, but also of Jewish merchants in Prague m...

History of tobacco use A LTHOUGH tobacco is now almost always associated with smoking, this is a relatively new trend in the long-recorded history of tobacco. For almost 500 years, snuff or chewing tobacco were the predominant forms and may even have been the original methods of taking tobacco. As early as Columbus' second voyage in 1493, Friar Roman Paine's journals described the taking of snu...

This paper traces the development of certain aspects of Japanese Buddhist ethics in the period immediately leading to, during, and following the Second World War, with specific focus on the justifications of warfare on the part of several prominent Buddhist scholars during this period. I will look, particularly, at some of the prewar and wartime writings D. T. Suzuki (1870-1966), Nishida Kitarō...

ion and regularity characterize the unique map of Palestine located in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, 52 which is also included in a codex of the long version. (Figure 3) The map with the boxes appears uniform and undifferentiated. This regularity is apparently intentional. The red-framed text entries in black are, at least for the most part, distributed uniformly across the su...