Pressure, Performance and Prestige: Dilemmas for Contemporary Professionals

Contemporary Neurological Dilemmas

Contemporary Neurological Dilemmas

© 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd INTRODUCTION Many patients present to neurology outpatient clinics without serious pathology – the classic example is the patient with chronic headache who believes he has a brain tumour. After a history and examination the neurologist is confi dent of the diagnosis of chronic tension-type headache, but is left not knowing whether to send the patient for a brain ...

Hyman Minsky and the Dilemmas of Contemporary Economic Method

Minsky’s influential work on financial fragility grows out of a recognition of the pivotal role financial markets and institutions play in converting liquid general claims to undifferentiated output into illiquid, risky, long-lived investment projects. This process requires savers, investors and intermediaries to value the prospective profit of particular investments in historically unique circ...

Status conferral in intergroup social dilemmas: behavioral antecedents and consequences of prestige and dominance.

Bridging the literatures on social dilemmas, intergroup conflict, and social hierarchy, the authors systematically varied the intergroup context in which social dilemmas were embedded to investigate how costly contributions to public goods influence status conferral. They predicted that contribution behavior would have opposite effects on 2 forms of status-prestige and dominance-depending on it...

Intersectoral Planning for Public Health: Dilemmas and Challenges

Background Intersectoral action is often presented as essential in the promotion of population health and health equity. In Norway, national public health policies are based on the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach that promotes whole-of-government responsibility. As part of the promotion of this intersectoral responsibility, p...