Decolonize or else – negotiating decolonization through popular theatre

Negotiating Conflict Through Federalism: Institutional and Popular Perspectives

The contours of our federal system are under constant negotiation, as governments construct the scope of one another’s interests and powers while pursuing their agendas. For our institutions to manage these dynamics productively, we must understand the value the system is capable of generating. But no single conception of this value exists, because the virtues and costs of any particular federa...

Classical Mythology in the Victorian Popular Theatre

Friedman , Harsanyi , Rawls , Boulding – Or Somebody Else ?

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self–concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self–concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of behavior. In the ignorance scenario, subjects became, on average, less inequality–averse as umpires. A wi...

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Mucositis, or Something Else?

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) has been described in the literature as a combination of erythematous blistering skin lesions covering <10% of body surface area and ≥1 mucous membrane erosion.1 SJS is usually triggered by a medication or infection. Infectious causes are more common in children, most notably herpes simplex virus (HSV) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mucous membrane erosions without si...

Training top surgeons - or anyone else.

Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are good friends. They are also world champions in their respective sports, tennis and golf. What do their achievements have in common with the training of top surgeons? Why was Prof. John Terblanche an excellent surgeon but struggles at golf, which he took up in his retirement? A better understanding of what makes champions seems to indicate that there are more co...