Mahatma Gandhi′s Perspective on Tobacco Mehrotra, Ravi; Singh, Prashant
Indian journal of medical research (New Delhi, India : 1994),
01/2019, Letnik:
149, Številka:
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Gandhi discussed the various ill effects of tobacco on human health including lung diseases, impaired eye-sight, digestion-related problems and poor cognitive ability. Gandhi was not merely concerned ...about the tobacco users but raised his voice against second-hand smoke faced by non-smokers. ...we find that Mahatma Gandhi had a clear vision and voice against the vice of tobacco.
This article provides an overview of the practice and study of civil resistance. First, historical roots of modern civil resistance are discussed, including the emergence in the 19th century of ...mass-based campaigns of non-cooperation to promote nationalist and labor interests, as well as the significance of Mohandas Gandhi and the widespread use of nonviolent resistance in the 20th century. Second, perspectives of scholars of social movements and revolution are compared with those of scholars who focus more specifically on nonviolent resistance. Despite studying much of the same phenomena, separate literatures have developed that are ripe for cross-fertilization and synthesis. In the third section, a literature review is organized around three key concepts for understanding civil resistance: mobilization, resilience, and leverage. Fourth, consequences of nonviolent resistance relative to violent resistance are discussed. Finally, areas for future research are identified.
Adolf Just (1859-1936) Czeranko, Sussanna
Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.),
06/2019, Letnik:
18, Številka:
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...Kuhne and Just without knowing that they had done so, provided the template for the naturopathic movement to emerge with a much needed theoretical and philosophical foundation and framework. Lust ...explains: "Return to a natural diet, allow water, light and air to influence your system and all ailments will disappear, as well as all misfortune and discontent"2 Just concluded that people, like animals in nature, could recover from illness if they would "heed again the voice of nature, and thus choose the food that nature has laid before him from the beginning, and to bring themselves again into the relation with water, light and air, earth, etc., that nature originally designed" 1 Just came to the conclusion that "all healing is done by nature and that science can only assist nature. Just saw men merely as highly evolved "moving plants," still needing to draw strength from the earth.13 He observed that animals in the wild following instinct would "remove all the leaves and branches when lying down, to be in immediate connection the earth in their repose"3 Just recognized that there was an electrical current inherent in the earth and that "this electrical connection is much more complete when the entire body is in direct contact with the earth"14 Dr. C. W. Young, an Osteopath who was endeared to the Just earthen cure comments, writes in this regard, It is indeed a fact that the effect which the forces of the earth have upon man during the night is quite incredible.
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Neurology India,
07/2016, Letnik:
64, Številka:
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Unconditional love, forgiveness and acceptance, practiced by Mahatma Gandhi during every moment of his life, was the only way forward to gain a place into another person's heart.
This article focuses on how the protagonist of Kanthapura brought the social conditions and value of Indian society. It delineates the Gandhian impact and his participation in India's struggle for ...Independence. Additionally, Gandhi is regarded as the 'builder of the nation' whose weapon of Non-Violence did tremendous change in the justice of Indian society. Moreover, the novel Kanthapura is the elucidation of Gandhian ideology and spread Gandhism.
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