Books That Have Shaped Our Thinking

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Books that have changed health services and health care policy.

Which books have had the greatest impact on the development of health services and health care policy? When the two of us compared our own ‘Top Ten’ list and found only two books in common, we decided to ask the same question of a group of some of the leading, most experienced people in health services and health care policy research. And who better than the 39 current members of the editorial ...

Thinking outside our cages.

Researchers seem to be stuck reiterating the now-familiar argument that barren boxes are bad for welfare and that rodents are due ethical consideration. But the prerequisites for real progress are new kinds of arguments, new types of data, and removal of very real practical and cultural obstacles to implementation of meaningful enrichment. We must discover what we have to do to effectively chan...

On Notable Books in Our History

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Dreams Bring Lucidity to Our Thinking

exist. At the same time, he was aware that he was thinking, and he was able to contemplate his own thoughts. Scientists call this reflection on one’s own thinking “metacognition” – a skill that so-called lucid dreamers have, as well. Elisa Filevich and Simone Kühn at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are studying which brain regions are particularly pronounced in lucid dr...