Here was a work specifically inspired by Puccini's "Bohème," also a tale of young artists struggling with love affairs, poverty and disease.
The international team included physicians, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and other public health officials with expertise in international affairs and infectious diseases.
Through a "single story" of poverty, conflict or disease, African affairs are often magnified against a backdrop of majestic flora and fauna.
A former minister for women's affairs, Aliye Kavaf, called it "a disease"; the interior minister, Idris Naim Sahin, cited it (along with Zoroastrianism and eating pork) as an example of "dishonour, immorality and inhuman situations".
Table 3 shows that age, cigarettes per day, duration of smoking, systolic blood pressure, triglycerides, negative affairs, exercise, family history of diseases including hypertension, stroke and cancer and existing diseases (including CHD, stroke, hypertension, cerebral arteriosclerosis, diabetes, COPD and cancer) were associated with all cause mortality (P < 0.05).
But these ever-topical, faintly provocative subjects (another is the reeling pace of urban renewal) mostly appear to be flimsy sociological window-dressing for a portrait of an unhappy marriage that draws on old-fashioned melodramatics — a fatal disease, a secret affair — to generate such tension as it can muster.
After 1945 it was apparent that the old system for administering Indian affairs was collapsing, as poverty and disease were rampant on many reserves.
You know the drill: An innocently happy family is shattered by an abrupt accident, disease, divorce, suicide, kidnapping, affair or other cosmic game changer.
Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered.
Memoirs describe his many love affairs, and his first bout of venereal disease, which he had as an adolescent.
