Articles

By the 1970s, the medical community believed they had all but won the war against communicable diseases. What happened?

Roughly 75 percent of the pathogens linked with emerging infections, are zoonoses—diseases that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and people.

The magnitude of evil perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and their brutal totalitarian regimes proved them utterly false messiahs.

Identity awareness means asking and answering the question, “Who am I?” But this is only the starting point in resolving intercommunal problems.

Vision reviews two books by R.J.B. Bosworth on Benito Mussolini and life in Italy under his dictatorship.  

Whenever times or circumstances change, people’s concept of truth changes with it. So what is truth?

Vision explores the potential of a flu pandemic through two authors who address different aspects of the issue.

William B. Hurlbut, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, discusses his proposed alternative to using embryonic stem cells in stem cell research.

The potential usefulness of embryonic stem cells in molecular medicine is huge, as are the ethical issues surrounding these tiny biological entities.

Described as the “restorer of religion, savior of the Church, anointed sovereign, living saint,” Napoleon was perhaps one of the most arrogant false messiahs.

Napoleon’s Imperial Catechism as issued by the emperor in 1806.

Asking what makes humans unique brings to mind an interesting list of attributes and activities. But what really makes us different from animals?

Using recalled personal history to examine the crucial place that Jerusalem has occupied in the identity and ideology core of fourteen key Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli leaders in the Arab-Zionist impasse, David Hulme explores the roles of identity and ideology in preventing or promoting a resolution between Israel and the Palestinians.

What role will nationalism play in the developing global economy? Liah Greenfeld of Boston University offers her view.

The last emperor to be crowned by a pope, Charles V viewed himself as a soldier of God—with Mars and Neptune at his side.

Is The Da Vinci Code based on fact, or are its author’s claims of accuracy the novel’s greatest fiction?

Because the brain has plasticity, our predispositions may be more malleable than we think.

Many disorders that were previously regarded as derived from moral or social problems are now viewed as medically treatable.

Part Two: Having survived the Great Depression, capitalism gained strength and traveled the world. Vision continues to follow its progress into the 21^st century.

This issue’s Bio Vision looks at one of the most influential economists of all time, John Maynard Keynes.