Reexamining the "Serbian exceptionalism" thesis

Research exceptionalism.

Research involving human subjects is much more stringently regulated than many other nonresearch activities that appear to be at least as risky. A number of prominent figures now argue that research is overregulated. We argue that the reasons typically offered to justify the present system of research regulation fail to show that research should be subject to more stringent regulation than othe...

the new exceptionalism

Human exceptionalism.

How the unique capacities of human cognition arose in evolution is a question of enduring interest. The difficulty of finding the best allometric and developmental frame for brain evolution and growth, however, leads researchers to routinely identify predictable features of the human brain as exceptional.

Sengi exceptionalism

The recent report of Slomianka et al. (2013) starts from the fact that the hippocampus is disproportionately large in the eastern rock sengi. The sengi, or elephant shrew, is a small mammal, native to southern Africa, previously grouped with insectivores but now considered to form a separate taxonomic order (Macroscelidae). A disproportionately large hippocampus occurs in a number of other spec...

The history of AIDS exceptionalism

In the history of public health, HIV/AIDS is unique; it has widespread and long-lasting demographic, social, economic and political impacts. The global response has been unprecedented. AIDS exceptionalism--the idea that the disease requires a response above and beyond "normal" health interventions--began as a Western response to the originally terrifying and lethal nature of the virus. More rec...