Progressive Dissenter: Herbert Hoover's Opposition to Truman's Overseas Military Policy

The religious objections and military opposition to anesthetics, 1846-1848.

Darwin's dissenter

glsA gene product, which is required for asymmetric division, and the regA gene product, which is required for terminal differentiation of somatic cells. More recently, they have also been used to show that the invA gene encodes a novel kinesin that drives inversion. What can Volvox tell us about the evolutionary origins of multicellularity and cellular differentiation? The family Volvocaceae, ...

Combat urologic trauma in US military overseas contingency operations.

BACKGROUND This article reports on the occurrences and patterns of genitourinary (GU) trauma in the contemporary high-intensity conflict of the overseas contingency operations (OCOs). METHODS The Joint Theater Trauma Registry was queried for all US military members who received treatment for GU wounds and concomitant injuries sustained in OCOs for >75 months between October 2001 and January 2...

The command of biotechnology and merciful conquest in military opposition.

Biotechnology has an increasingly extensive use for military purposes. With the upcoming age of biotechnology, military operations are depending more on biotechnical methods. Judging from the evolving law of the theory of command, the command of biotechnology is feasible and inevitable. The report discusses some basic characteristics of modern theories of command, as well as the mature possibil...

Beyond policy analysis: the raw politics behind opposition to healthy public policy.

Despite evidence that public policy that equitably distributes the prerequisites/social determinants of health (PrH/SDH) is a worthy goal, progress in achieving such healthy public policy (HPP) has been uneven. This has especially been the case in nations where the business sector dominates the making of public policy. In response, various models of the policy process have been developed to cre...