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We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems

The health sector consistently appears prominently in surveys of perceived corruption, with considerable evidence that this has serious adverse consequences for patients. Yet this issue is far from prominent in the international health policy discourse. We identify five reasons why the health policy community has been reluctant to talk about it. These are the problem of defining corruption, the...

Let Us Talk : Oral Communication to Enrich Student Writing and Writing Instruction

“I wonder why they don’t talk to us more”: Exploring interdisciplinarity in Japanese higher education

This paper investigated interdisciplinary attitudes within the English Language Teaching (ELT) department and across its boundaries, drawing upon case study research, conducted by means of questionnaires and follow up semi-structured interviews among ELT and non-ELT faculty in four Japanese colleges and universities in one prefecture. Three themes are argued as impacting upon the concept of int...

Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science

We conducted a quantitative analysis of ten citizen science projects hosted on the Zooniverse platform, using a data set of over 50 million activity records and more than 250, 000 users, collected between December 2010 and July 2013. We examined the level of participation of users in Zooniverse discussion forums in relation to their contributions toward the completion of scientific (micro-)task...

Why We Must Talk About Institutional Corruption to Understand Wrongdoing in the Health Sector; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

While various forms of corruption are common in many health systems around the world, defining wrongdoing in terms of legality and the use of public office for private gain obstructs our understanding of its nature and intractability. To address this, I suggest, we must not only break the silence about the extent of wrongdoing in the health sector, but also talk differe...