Medical humanities as an aspiration looks both forward and backward, seeking in part the rediscovery of a certain attitude towards medicine, its natural objects/subjects (patients) and its place in the cultural, artistic and scientific order. That attitude is embodied in the idea of a Renaissance Man or Woman embracing an interdisciplinary (even omnidisciplinary) view of the world, a universal ...

1970s, ‘The Morning After’ was the title of the daily newspaper of the Sixtieth Annual Conference of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America held in New York.1 Attending the conference during transatlantic study leave, the Honorary Secretary of the National Association of Family Planning Doctors was impressed during the reception at the ‘Windows on the World’ restaurant atop the World Trad...

In developing countries, low levels of awareness, cost and organizational constraints on access to specialized care contribute to inadequate patient help-seeking behavior. As much as 95% of cancer patients in developing countries are diagnosed at late to end stage disease. Consequently, treatment outcome is dismally poor and a vicious cycle sets in, with public mystification of cancer and the a...

Methodology and Interpretive Procedures’ acknowledges the vital importance of methodology as I construct a discourse that examines discourses. Through Ball (1994) this paper considers methodological terms such as critical, analyst, risk , imagination , reflexive and reflective. Accepting that the naming of any field is contestable therefore risky, the educational field of focus is ‘the arts’. T...

1970s, ‘The Morning After’ was the title of the daily newspaper of the Sixtieth Annual Conference of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America held in New York.1 Attending the conference during transatlantic study leave, the Honorary Secretary of the National Association of Family Planning Doctors was impressed during the reception at the ‘Windows on the World’ restaurant atop the World Trad...

The season of the Nobel awards and the ensuing ceremonials is upon us. As the current laureates prepare to graciously stand in line before the crowned heads of Sweden and Norway, it’s an appropriate moment to reflect on what the prize has come to mean, and whether it still serves a useful purpose in today’s world. Although the Nobel Prizes are held in high esteem by the general public the world...

Food Science and TechnologyVolume 35, Issue 2 p. 21-23 FeaturesFree Access Innovation with purpose First published: 15 June 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsat.3502_6.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley ...

In his paper, "Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman," Brian Mitchell Peters proposes that youth culture is responsible for an arbitrary yet highly structured appropriation of what we can call high-contemporary culture. Hence, notions of pop-culture take from the past and use the present to create a highly fluid now, capable of transcending its present ...

In this essay I outline some beliefs and practices among lowland christianised peoples in the Philippines relating primarily to the existence of spirits which are believed to be responsible for causing illness, attending to their imbrication with Catholicism and local cultural notions and practices and post-colonial questions of identity. I sketch three interpretative frameworks that have been ...

Scientific knowledge is an essential component of modern society. Consequently, sociologists are interested in its production process and have conducted a broad variety of studies showing how social patterns influence the definition and the boundaries of scientific knowledge. In this paper, I ask how social factors influence the transformation of a ‘normal’ field of knowledge into a ‘scientific...