Review Essay Social Science in Health Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Science and sexual identity: an essay review.

Systematic Review of Social Health Promotion with Social Capital Approach

Introduction: Social health is one of the dimensions of health defined by the world health organization. Social capital components have close relations with social health. This study reviewed reported documents about social health and social capital components improving interventions.  Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify social health and social capital improving intervention...

Public knowledge. An essay concerning the social dimension of science

J. M. ZIMAN, Public knowledge. An essay concerning the social dimension of science, Cambridge University Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xii, 154, £1.40 (paperback). This book appeared first in 1968 and is now reprinted (see reviews, Bull. Atomic Sci., 1969, 25: 36; Science, 1969, 164: 669; Choice, 1969, 6: 80). It is a well-balanced treatment, aimed at the educated layman, of the philosophical, psycholo...

Essay review. Romantic life and science.

Romance has for some time been a term of dubious associations. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Burnet decried those critics who would call his Theory of the Earth a ‘Philosophik Romance’; in the eighteenth century, Buffon did just that, and before too long, his theory of the Earth was the subject of the same epithet. By 1780, the early days of the era of Romanticism (so early that it was not...

Conservation benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to marine mammal science

Protected resource economists can greatly enhance the science and conservation of marine mammals, however such contributions are often hampered by a lack of understanding of the role of natural resource economics on behalf of more traditional marinemammal scientists. The threemajor threats to marinemammals—fishery bycatch, increasing underwater sound, and climate change could be more effectivel...