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De l'Asie en Amérique, de l'Europe en Afrique la sorcellerie reste d'une actualité vive. Contrairement à ce qu'on peu penser, aucun continent n'est épargné. L'actualité grouille d'information macabre, d'une cruauté jamais égalée. Ici, c'est un enfant le bras coupé que la mère pour les besoins de richesse et de pouvoir a sectionné pour un marché obscur ; là bas, ce sont les albinos qui ont perdu le sommeil parce que leurs organes sont très sollicités pour les rituels mystiques et ésotériques ; d'un autre côté toute une famille est contrainte de se nourrir de ces propres excréments....etc. Une réflexion approfondie fait ressortir qu'il s'agit là des manifestations caract...
Le bien et le mal font partie intégrantes de l’humanité dans ces interactions sociales ou dans celles avec la nature. Cette considération liminaire ne souffre d’aucun doute, et ce quelle que soit la cosmogonie. « Je suis venu mettre fin aux forces du mal » est un ouvrage qui s’appuie sur l’essence de la spiritualité intrinsèque de chaque groupe de peuples (africains, asiatiques et européens) pour analyser la conception du mal et de ses forces dans un contexte tantôt de retour aux sources, tantôt d’introduction de nouvelles croyances. Cet ouvrage analyse donc particulièrement et suivant une logique épistémique, différentes croyances : d’aucunes liées aux cosmogonies...
Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so-called 'emerging infectious diseases'. Understanding and responding to these often unpredictable events have become major challenges for local, national and international bodies. All too often, responses can become restricted by implicit assumptions about who or what is to blame that may not capture the dynamics and uncertainties at play in the multi-scale interactions of people, animals and microbes. As a result, policies intended to forestall epidemics may fail, and may even further threaten health, livelihoods and human rights. T...
“Water and Health” strengthens the dynamic relationship between human health and water. The book has the potential to ignite our minds about several water-related diseases due to biological and chemical contamination, and to their high-end solutions. The contents are original, comprehensive and highly informative, and gradually take the reader around the component most important to his or her quality life, and not just existence. The book is set in social, scientific and economic dimensions, and is a must read for all those who cherish and celebrate human life and dignity.
Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people fol...
This book presents some of Zoltán J. Ács’ most important contributions since the turn of the new millennium, with a particular intellectual focus on knowledge spillover entrepreneurship. It studies the evolution of global entrepreneurship and pays attention to the role of institutions and the incentives they create for economic agents who become either productive or unproductive entrepreneurs. For productive entrepreneurs, those that create wealth for themselves and for society, the author offers a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship as a new way to help understand the entrepreneurial ecosystem. For those that create wealth only for themselves the author develops a theory of destructive entrepreneurship that undermines the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The book also presents an explanation of the role of philanthropy in reconstituting wealth to complete the circuits of capital in the theory of capitalist development. Finally, the author examines several public policy issues including immigration and technology transfer. This volume will be required reading for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, economics and public policy.
Evil Eye, Jinn Possession, and Mental Health Issues raises awareness of the cultural considerations, religion and spirituality involved in the assessment of Muslim patients with mental health problems. The belief that Jinn spirits can cause mental illness in humans through affliction or possession is widely accepted among Muslims, meaning this belief is a crucial, but frequently overlooked, aspect of mental health problems with Muslim patients in psychiatric care. This book explores the nature of such beliefs, their relationship to mental health and the reasons for their importance in clinical practice. The book argues that it is vital to consider mental disorders as a multifactorial affair,...
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