Stuart Elden, Canguilhem. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019. 215 pp. + Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. 294 pp.

Georges Canguilhem and the diagnosis of personality disorder.

Psychiatric participation, actual and anticipated, in the detention of “sexually violent predators” in the United States and “dangerous severe personality disordered” people in the United Kingdom provokes controversy. Much of this controversy concerns the proper roles of doctors and other mental health professionals. And since existing and proposed legislation requires that a person have a ment...

Stuart Justman, The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 272, hardback, $79.99, ISBN: 987-1-137-52328-0.

donor of the organ more and more substituted in several contexts the recipient as the figure of reference. And a fundamental uneasiness facing modern medicine manifested itself behind the interests of self-determination. However, the history of organ transplantation is not a history of increasing biopower in Hofmann’s view. Since the 1980s it has been formed by a liberal form of power that saw ...

Miller, Alexander, An Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics, Oxford: Polity Press, 2003, pp

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Endophilin-B1, also known as Bax-interacting factor 1 (Bif-1, and encoded by SH3GLB1), is a multifunctional protein involved in apoptosis, autophagy and mitochondrial function. We recently described a unique neuroprotective role for neuron-specific alternatively spliced isoforms of endophilin-B1. To examine whether endophilin-B1-mediated neuroprotection could be a novel therapeutic target for A...

Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions. By Johan Peter Murmann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003 (paperback edition, 2006). Pp. xxi, 294

Altogether, Malone effectively depicts what Thomas Hughes called a technological system. Hughes noted that electric light and power requiring the coordination of organizations and technologies over long distances, in contrast to the steam engine, which supplied power locally. Water power had a similarly complex character because Locks and Canals controlled water flow from distant sources, solve...