Modern Warfare and Its Evolving Weapons – Assumptions and Inherent Contradictions

Drug policy in sport: hidden assumptions and inherent contradictions.

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS This paper considers the assumptions underpinning the current drugs-in-sport policy arrangements. DESIGN AND METHODS We examine the assumptions and contradictions inherent in the policy approach, paying particular attention to the evidence that supports different policy arrangements. RESULTS We find that the current anti-doping policy of the World Anti-Doping Agency (W...

Medicine and modern warfare

dimension in depth, he suggests that an appreciation of Nazi health initiatives can help us "better understand how fascism triumphed in the first place" (p. 278). Indeed, future studies of the public reception of Nazi health initiatives may find that they made fascism more attractive-but, granted the sensitivity of health enthusiasts to public opinion and their ambivalence about potentially unp...

military transformation and modern warfare

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Medicalized weapons & modern war.

"Medicalized" weapons--those that rely on advances in neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology--offer the prospect of reducing casualties and protecting civilians. They could be especially useful in modern asymmetric wars in which conventional states are pitted against guerrilla or insurgent forces. But may physicians and other medical workers participate in their development?

Surgery of Modern Warfare