Skype and cheap calls give an illusion of closeness, but homesickness is still real | Ian Jack
People are keener than ever to leave for new and faraway places; does technology keep them close to what they have left, or make them pine for it all the more?Nostalgia used to be considered an illness. A word with a refreshingly certain etymology, it was coined by a Swiss medical student, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 joined together two Greek words, nostos for homecoming and algos for pain or ache, to describe "a neurological disease of [an] essentially demonic cause". The Swiss also knew it as mal du Suisse or Schweizerheimweh, later translated into English as the nationally unspecific "homesickness", a mental a...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 20, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Ian Jack Tags: Comment The Guardian Family Society Language Features Migration Science Comment is free Source Type: news
Moldovan hospital probed for power drill used in surgery
Hospital director claims there were three proper surgery drills at Valentin Ignatenco Hospital in Chisinau (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - July 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coming home: Challenges in family reintegration for trafficked women - Brunovskis A, Surtees R.
This article presents challenges in family reintegration for returning Moldovan trafficking victims based on qualitative interviews with 19 victims of trafficking and 31 service providers, looking specifically at points of tension in reuniting with childre... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Social Etiologies and Disparities Source Type: news
