Dialogue across Disciplines

Let’s Talk: Dialogue Across Disciplines on Immigration and Integration Issues

Immigration has become one of the most prominent issues in world politics and one of the most studied phenomena in the social sciences. However, divergences exist between immigration as a political phenomenon and the response of the academic community to the issue. First, immigration issues are complex because they encompass questions related to almost every aspect of the host society. However,...

Plato's cave and Aristotle's collections: dialogue across disciplines.

ideas to physical life. In other words, these techniques and exercises help bridge theory and practice. Doctoral nursing students must learn abstract philosophical content as well as the ways in which this content might appear in clinical practice. For example, knowledge of the differences between Platonic and Aristotelian ideas of reality is an important part of their development as scholars. ...

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

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...