Why “Dissident” Irish Republicans Haven’t Gone Away

Hunger Strikes by Irish Republicans , 1916 - 1923

The hunger strike is a strange technique of civil war. Physical suffering—possibly even death—is inflicted on oneself, rather than on the opponent. The technique can be conceived as a paradoxical inversion of hostage-taking or kidnapping, analyzed by Elster (2004). With kidnapping, A threatens to kill a victim B in order to force concessions from the target C; sometimes the victim is also the t...

Epiglottitis: It Hasn't Gone Away.

Anesthesiology, V 124 • No 6 1404 June 2016 G eorge Washington, the United States’ first president, 2 yr after leaving office on December 13, 1799, was reported to have “a cold” and mild hoarseness. The next morning, around 2:00 am, he had difficulty breathing. By 6:00 am, he was febrile, had throat pain, and experienced respiratory distress. Three physicians...

Why are students keeping away from wards?

Gone South: why canadian nurses migrate to the United States.

The movement of Canadian nurses to the United States increased over the past decade and is an ongoing concern of health policy analysts. This study examines why Canadian nurses emigrate to the United States and whether there is interest in returning to work in Canada. A survey of Canadian-educated nurses in North Carolina showed that lack of full-time work opportunities played a key role in emi...

Are Republicans healthier than Democrats?

Can one's political ideology influence one's health? Aggregate studies correlating average voting patterns with average mortality levels, 1–4 or average health dissatisfaction , 3 suggest that mortality tends to be lower in areas where the majority vote for the party with conservative political orientation. This finding has usually been presented as reflecting the differences in socioeconomic d...