seuyoty was one of the most celebrated medieval authors in arabic literature and during a literary period known as mamlooki era. although anecdote (magama) is a literary type which is written like a story and is based on the beggarliness and trickery of the first character of the story, seuyoty’s anecdotes (maqaamas) are different from the anecdotes of his predecessors. seuyoty’s magamas are no...

BACKGROUND Studies assessing the point-specific effect of acupuncture or the characteristics of acupuncture points (APs) tend to yield inconclusive results. In order to identify a possible confounding factor, we aimed to examine the variability in AP localization by means of a survey. MATERIAL AND METHODS Attendees of the 14th ICMART (International Council of Medical Acupuncture and Related T...

I refer to the transformation of the valid economic necessity to contain costs into an ideology a self-justifying principle that threatens to assume quasi-moral stature. One consequence is the self-righteous pursuit of economic goals that may obscure our obligations to the sick. Another is the commercialization of the healing relationship by the growing pressure to use competition as a cost con...