Fair is foul, and foul is fair: reframing neurodevelopmental disorders in the neurodevelopmental perspective

The screening review system: fair or foul?

British Columbia's PharmaCare Program: fair or foul?

and colleagues present a rigorous and comprehensive examination of pharmacare policy in British Columbia, specifically the introduction of co-payments for seniors in 2002, followed by an income-based " Fair PharmaCare " Program in 2003. Fair PharmaCare achieved its primary objective of reducing public expenditures on pharmaceuticals – an unsurprising accomplishment. Although politically hazardo...

Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere.

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different i...

How Fair is Fair Trade?

This paper investigates to what extent fair trade programmes, are indeed ‘fair’. This is accomplished by comparing fair trade with free trade and protectionist trade regimes on their compliance of the criteria set by the fair trade movement itself. This comparison is made using comparative cost based and economies of scale models. It is found that whether or not fair trade is superior to free t...

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

The effective identification of neurodevelopmental disorders is essential for early diagnosis and provision of intervention services. For many of these conditions, one of the primary domains of abnormality is language development. This review addresses what is known about the earliest indicators of language impairment across a range of neurodevelopmental disorders; consideration is given to bot...