Cinderella across Disciplines

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines

Cinderella of the cinderella services

The General Medical Council, which once found itself in court only when a doctor appealed to the privy council against a finding of serious professional misconduct, is facing a growing readiness of dissatisfied doctors to mount legal challenges to its practices and rulings. Dr Sidney Gee, the Harley Street slimming doctor cleared ofcharges ofmisconduct last April, started the trend when he took...

Overdiagnosis across medical disciplines: a scoping review

OBJECTIVE To provide insight into how and in what clinical fields overdiagnosis is studied and give directions for further applied and methodological research. DESIGN Scoping review. DATA SOURCES Medline up to August 2017. STUDY SELECTION All English studies on humans, in which overdiagnosis was discussed as a dominant theme. DATA EXTRACTION Studies were assessed on clinical field, stud...

Altruism across disciplines: one word, multiple meanings

Altruism is a deep and complex phenomenon that is analysed by scholars of various disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, biology, evolutionary anthropology and experimental economics. Much confusion arises in current literature because the term altruism covers variable concepts and processes across disciplines. Here we investigate the sense given to altruism when used in different field...