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A Tradition ofTraditional Medicine

Pain Medicine, 2011
“Mo, Hi, Ba … Yo! (1, 2, 3 … Go!).” My Vietnamese hosts were very enthusiastic and insistent about toasting with beer at the celebratory dinner for our medical mission to Vietnam. As the evening progressed and the toasting continued, I noted that my beer glass appeared to have no bottom, or at least my Vietnamese hosts were ensuring I never reached it.
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The Sociological Tradition or Traditions?

The American Sociologist, 2014
Almost five decades on, Nisbet’s The Sociological Tradition remains instructive for anyone seeking to write a general history of sociology. Combining a distinctive approach to the history of ideas with a curious lack of methodological self-consciousness, its dated feel belies the relevance of its substantive concerns.
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The Tradition of no Tradition

2019
This chapter explores the origins of Israeli comics, with a particular focus on three early women comics creators: Leah Goldberg, Friedel Stern, and Elisheva Nadal. It then explores the work of three influential artists from the 1970s-1980s: Dudu Geva, Uri Fink, and Michel Kichka.
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The justification of vincristine dose capping: tradition, tradition…tradition!

Leukemia & Lymphoma, 2020
‘You may ask, how did this tradition start? I’ll tell you – I don’t know. But it’s a tradition…’-Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof In the accompanying article, Weis et al.
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The Tradition of the Destruction of Tradition

Tekstualia, 2018
The paper focuses on the attributes of the polish avant-garde, especially in the modern polish theatre. In Tadeusz Kantor’s words: it is „the tradition of the destruction of tradition”. The most important and infl uential tradition in Poland – since the nineteenth century – is romanticism and its legacy.
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Traditions and Invented Traditions

2005
Migrants never travel from one place to another without baggage. In addition to the material belongings they pack, they bring those dimensions of their culture that are most important to them. From the very first settlers in the Americas, those migrants from somewhere in central Asia who migrated across the land bridge where the Bering Straits are now,
David A. Gerber, Alan M. Kraut
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Tradition: Three Traditions

Journal of Folklore Research, 2009
This article traces "tradition" as a keyword of Western modernity, circulating between general and scholarly usage and between analytic and ideological applications. After a historical overview, I identify three main orientations: tradition as a communicative transaction, tradition as a temporal ideology, and tradition as communal property.
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Traditional Politics or the Politics of Tradition?

Reviews in American History, 1993
In the beginning there was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And it was good. But its political fallout was bad. The liberal Democrats who had crafted the legislation and identified their party with its spirit and implications had alienated white southerners and embarked on a path that would eventually distance them from other "key voters" as well.
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Tradition or Traditions?

2011
In recent years, renewed interest has been sparked in the concept of political tradition and its application to the study of British politics. Various authors operating from different methodological and normative perspectives (Bevir and Rhodes 2003; 2006a; Marsh and Hall 2007; Marquand 2008) have pointed to the centrality of political traditions in ...
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The Tradition of Traditional Marriage

SSRN Electronic Journal
The logical case for same-sex marriages seems nearly ineluctable today. In the course of the past three decades, American state laws have effectively reduced marriage to a terminal sexual contract between consenting adults. But "[a] page of history is worth a volume of logic," Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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