Many of the pious bequest policies (Vaghf) !supportFootnotes]-->[1] at present time are denominated by old or ancient coins, the present value of which is not well known. Therefore, fixing the annual custodian fee for Vaghf is quite difficult. Moreover, the difficulty of evaluation of the present value of the dowry the husband has to pay to the bride after the marriage (Mahr) !supportFootno...

The behaviour of so called traditional patients has been the topic of anthropological research for the last thirty years. Myths have been and constructed and rejected, one being that patients with chronic and less incapacitating illness see rather traditional healers than allopathic medical treatment. The case study with which we are concerned in this paper is the illness of a young girl who is...

The accepted rule for women contributing to nineteenth-century science before 1851 was that they could play only secondary roles in its production and authorship--as translators, illustrators, popularizers--and these by virtue of kinship or marriage to eminent scientists in the field or the laboratory. Sarah Bowdich (Lee) (1791-1856) presents an important amendment to this rule. As an explorer ...

DR. MARGARET RORKE said that, like the President, she felt a high appreciation of the address, from which she had learned a great deal. She feared that her knowledge of psychology was very much a matter of " trial and error " ; in her medical student days the curriculum did not include definite psychological training, such as present-day students received. She saw in her V.D. clinic a number of...

RANDOLPH TRUMBACH (editor), Marriage, sex, and the family in England, 1660-1800, New York and London, Garland Publishing Inc., 1985, a facsimile series: 1. Thomas Salmon, A critical essay concerning marriage, London, 1724, $30.50 7. George Booth, Earl of Warrington, Considerations upon the institution of marriage, London, 1737; with The present state of matrimony: or, the real causes of conjuga...

On the face of it, civil marriage represents both the most typical and most anodyne aspect of modern law. One might say that by instituting civil marriage, a bureaucratic, enumerative, and secularized state permits its subjects absolute individual choice of marital partners, and concurrently, by refusing to take into account the religious affiliation of any party, grants total freedom of religi...

Throughout their adult lives Louisa May Alcott and her sister, Nieriker, debated whether the female artist could combine an artistic career with marriage. For Louisa, marriage was a useful plot device in domestic fiction, but it undermine artist’s productivity reality. Contrastingly, viewed as enhancing outputs. This article surveys Louisa’s assessment of sister’s ideas romantic love across fou...