Elective Affinities

The study of religion and development focuses on how the moral and ethical resources of the world’s major faith traditions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddh...

Suicide in the forms of martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-immolation is mired in controversies regarding religious roots, nomenclature, motives, and valor. Although the admiratio...

Inguinal hernia 368Repair of femoral hernia 372Adult umbilical hernia (Mayo's ‘vest over pants’ repair) 374Epigastric hernia 376Incisional hernia 378• Elective: all symptomatic her...

This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka’s engagement with the classical past.Nigerian author and activist Wole Soyinka was the first Black African author to win the...