Wherever the garden of Eden may have been located, most people believe that the development of the modern apple is the result of hybridisations through the centuries of cultivation with wild species growing in Europe and elsewhere. But work carried out at the University of Oxford suggests an entirely different provenance for the apple: a remote and remarkable valley region on the borders of Kaz...

excess of expenditure over receipts, happily a thing which seldom occurs. He then drew attention to the resolution of the Committee to carry out an extensive series of improvements in the hospital and its equipment, in spite of the possible objection that this is a bad time for incurring expenses which might be avoided. These same improvements, he said, were found to be necessary ten years ago ...

75 despair, as all certainties—even the putative postmodern certainty of exposing all certainties—become steadily bereft of intellectual or existential justification. By contrast, Vico, though a “genealogist of modernity” not unlike Nietzsche, kept one foot resolutely in the Catholic-Augustinian tradition. This tradition supplied him with the normative intellectual resources to offer qualified ...

An overview of traditional views and practices is taken primarily from studies o, fifteen tribal societies. An emphasis on supernatural causes of disease, a dependence upon witchdoctors who utilize herbal and ritual remedies, and the use of surgical techniques were features common to most groups. Numerous health problems are shown to result from traditional beliefs. Among them ate dietary defic...