SIR As pointed out in your recent editorial (1) my contribution to the 1984 'controversy' defended not health promotion in all its many guises, but rather one particular interpretation of it (2). I was suggesting that there is a model of health promotion (elaborated upon elsewhere (3) which included health education at its best (no doubt of the type of which Gill Williams 'approves'), and where...

The pursuit of unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking or binge drinking, not only carries various downside risks, but also provides pleasure. A parsimonious model, used in the literature to explain the decision to pursue an unhealthy activity, represents that decision as a tradeoff between risks and benefits. We build on this literature by surveying a rural population in South Africa to elicit th...

There has been a lack of discussion concerning virtual reality as an expressive medium. It is essential to emphasise the aesthetic dimension of virtual reality in order to develop the medium as a powerful artistic mode of expression. This thesis examines how head-mounted display-based virtual reality can be used for artistic expression, focussing on the aesthetic pleasures of the medium. Pionee...