Challenging Different Orthodoxies

Challenging orthodoxies: the road ahead for health and human rights.

Two decades of work delivering health care in poor communities provide a standpoint from which to challenge conventional doctrines in human rights and public health. These orthodoxies include the priority often assigned to civil and political rights over economic and social rights and a narrow concept of cost-effectiveness in public health policy. An analysis based on economic and social rights...

Commentary: Challenging public health orthodoxies—prophesy or heresy?†

In 1633, after many years of skirmishing with the Catholic Church over his support for Copernicus’ heliocentric theory of the universe, Galileo was finally sentenced by the inquisition to prison and religious penances. In a formal ceremony at the church of Santa Maria Sofia Minerva, he was forced to abjure his errors, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest in Sienna. The prophet had ...

Against Orthodoxies in Rabies

Against Orthodoxies in Rabies

Against Orthodoxies in Symbolism, Micromethods and Micromathematics

nity of an offspring. Let nothing of the kind be done. If T represents the dominant character Tall, d should represent the recessive character dwarf. For exactly the same reason if Y represents the dominant character Yellow, g should represent the recessive character green. There is no particular merit in being cryptic and using a code when plain language will do and in fact do better. Decoding...