The concept of heritage is constantly on the cultural and politic agenda of contemporary society. The reflections in this chapter move away from legal and legislative references toward the meaning the capital has assumed within the disciplines that study territory, landscape, and architecture. Describing the many ways in which the term is used reveals the gradual expansion of the concept of her...

Doctors know government and politics like lawyers know medicine—enough to really make a mess of things. Thus, physicians loath to recommend major surgery (especially of debatable benefit) for their patients, eagerly advocate for radical “reform” of our health care system, even though the body politic also bears lifelong scars after disfiguring interventions. Why do doctors, so distrustful of th...

Part I.—Economic Factors and Crime. Crime is a great source of waste. Millions worth of property is destroyed by criminal activity every year, in every country of any importance. Lakhs of rupees are spent on detection of crime and on bringing to book the offenders. Thousands of men are sent to prisons when their crimes are detected, and they have to be fed and housed at State cost. It is true t...

Biennial Conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health – The Body Politic: States in the History of Medicine and Health, an extremely important European meeting in the field of history of medicine, whose main organizer was the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, took place in the amphitheatre of “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and P...

in this research i have pointed out the various aspects of the relationships between sport and politics and at the end i have suggested some ideas for improving the sports in iran. on the basis of this research, the relationships between sport and politics is a bilateral relation, because from one hand the politics impacts on sport by making and implementing sports` strategy and on the other ha...

Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...

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BACKGROUND The evidence on the association between politics and health is scarce considering the importance of this topic for population health. Studies that investigated the effect of different political regimes on health outcomes show inconsistent results. METHODS Bayesian time-series cross-section analyses are used to examine the overall impact of regional politics on variations in Italian...

The Nation’s poor have been a recurring issue in the body politic. Sometimes it has been in response to widespread distress, as in the Great Depression that helped launch Social Security, federally aided public assistance, and unemployment insurance. On other occasions, as in 1964, it has been the anomaly of that “other America” in the midst of plenty that commanded attention. Apparently the ri...