The South Asian countries share common health challenges with very poor health indicators in the world. This is primarily because of political apathy, poverty and staggering health infrastructure. In resource-limited countries, an evidence-based approach can rationalize the treatment and be costeffective by reducing clinical practices that have no proven benefit. However, at present, evidenceba...

whose composition began at about the time of the Buddha (d. c. 400 BC). Sigalea describes the early medicine recoverable from Vedic and Upanisadic sources, its relationship with the nascent Indian philosophical schools, and the formation of the Sanskrit medical canon. In the following thirty chapters he provides a comprehensive account of Indian classical medicine, including the formation of th...

The structural abstract discusses the features of modern post-non-classical scientific discourse, according to which all kinds and religious knowledge are simplified mental construction a complex objective reality. All accumulated is combination various theoretical models divine reality, performance was checked by centuries experience mystical connection with Lord. According requirements discou...

the representation of buddha’s image in the art of india, has always been associated with the necessities of life, beliefs and customs of indian people. buddha’s representation, could be divided into two phases: the symbolic phase which sometimes called the first period (2b.c to 1a.d) and the figurative phase which is also called the second period (from 1a.d. on). during his lifetime (563 b.c -...

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) [1] was partially implemented in April 2007 and fully implemented from 1 October 2007 in England and Wales. Lack of decision-making capacity (DMC) is associated with cognitive impairment and dementia [2]. The proportion of adults aged 65 years and above in black and minority ethnic (BME) groups is rapidly increasing [3]. The prevalence of dementia in BME group...

Featured Article: Seshadri S, Beiser A, Selhub J, Jacques PF, Rosenberg IH, D’Agostino RB, et al. Plasma homocysteine as a risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. N Engl J Med 2002;346:476 – 83. In the late 1990s, I was working in a tertiary-care academic medical center in India and running a dementia clinic that had enrolled 120 patients in its first year. India is a country where ce...

I propose an alternative conception of freedom in actually existing liberal order by focusing on how gay men Podgorica, Montenegro maintain love and kinship relations. For theorists late liberalism, the demands those social relatedness have been seen as opposed. By contrast, Podgorica we can trace a notion non-autological understood ability to engage certain practice while thinking through its ...

Anthropologists have spilt much ink deconstructing concepts inherited from the Enlightenment. Religion, possibly most misleading such concept, has proved highly resistant to acid of cross-cultural comparison. Debates about nature religion go back sociocultural anthropology's beginnings as a discipline and beyond. Proposed definitions been numerous, but none come close universal acceptance, main...

One important foundation of Buddhist ethics is a commitment to nonviolence. My aim in this paper is to work out the implications of this commitment with regard to the treatment of offenders. Given that punishment involves the intentional infliction of harm, I argue that the practice of punishment is incompatible with the principle of nonviolence. The core moral teaching of the Buddha is to conq...

An ethical system must do two things: It must envision a particular way of life and it must work out a path to the realization of that way of life that is internally consistent, yet workable in the real world. Surprisingly, recent ecological ethics have failed to realize these two components of an ethical system. From Leopold's Land Ethic to Deep Ecology, no coherent ethical system was born. Mo...