Why Research Should Pay Attention to Effects of Marketization of Addiction Treatment Systems

Medication Literacy: Why Pharmacists Should Pay Attention.

Epigenetics in comparative biology: why we should pay attention.

The past decade has seen an explosion of articles in scientific journals involving non-genetic influences on phenotype through modulation of gene function without changes in gene sequence. The excitement in modern molecular biology surrounding the impact exerted by the environment on development of the phenotype is focused largely on mechanism and has not incorporated questions asked (and answe...

Why pay attention to the artist?

A major part of the focus for this year’s Association for Medical Humanities conference in Truro (10–12 July) will be to examine the perspective of the artist within medical humanities. In part, this is being raised because it is felt that individual artists can become invisible in our field; it is their work that is displayed, discussed, made example of, often without attribution. One of us re...

Biotechnology and monstrosity. Why we should pay attention to the "yuk factor".

hat kinds of moral objections are there to W such interventions as xenotransplantation, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering generally? Ethicists today often divide moral objections firmly into two sets, those that point to dangerous consequences and those saying that the act itself is intrinsically wrong. Of course this division between act and consequence is often useful. But unless the t...

Sustaining Community Access to Technology: Who Should Pay and Why

Based on research on several national, regional, local projects, and on an analysis of the Canadian federal governments’ main Internet public access programs, the authors argue that as the digital divide has evolved and changed, changes in a conception of this and approaches to sustainability are required. This requires defining sustainability in terms of supporting community organizations that...