In the fi rst great period of bourgeois hegemony, the reinvention of romance fi nds its strategies in the substitution of new positivities (theology, psychology, the dramatic metaphor) for the older magical content. When at the end of the nineteenth century the search for secular equivalents seems exhausted, the characteristic indirection of a nascent modernism, from Kafka to Cortazar, circumsc...

In the last issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), editor-in-chief, Dr. Reza Afshari focused on an important contemporary issue of empowering toxicology in the Asia pacific region (1). The topic drew our attention and we would like to share the situation of Bangladesh in light of this editorial. Dr. Afshari correctly emphasized on forming national societies of medical toxi...

confirmed. The Secretary announced that, as a result of a memorandum submitted by the medical members of council, the Council of the Society had sanctioned the expenditure during the next two years of a sum of Rs. 3,000 on the purchase of standard medical works as a basis of a medical reference library. With the large number of medical journals already received this will go far towards supplyin...