This essay examines factors leading to the identification of Toxic Shock Syndrome with the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus in 1978 and the specific role of Rely tampons in generating a technologically rooted health crisis. The concept biologically incompatible technology is offered to explain the relationship between constituent bacteria, women's menstrual cycles, and a reactive technology that ...

In recent years, there have been prominent calls for a new social contract that accords a more central role to citizens in health research. Typically, this has been understood as citizens and patients having a greater voice and role within the standard research enterprise. Beyond this, however, it is important that the renegotiated contract specifically addresses the oversight of a new, path-br...

In the 1990s, HIV/AIDS became a major threat to health, economic stability and human development in countries in eastern Europe and central Asia. Social, political and economic transition exacerbated the structural conditions that allowed HIV/AIDS to flourish as dramatic changes led to increasing drug injection, economic decline and failing health and healthcare systems. There is a need to addr...

In the United States of America, the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) system of training residents has allowed high-quality postgraduate education to flourish. This paper describes the evolution of the AHECs in the context of medical education over the past 50 years. The arrangements for programme administration and design, resident assessment and appraisal, training of trainers in education...

At present, distributed real-time applications flourish, including the military systems, telecommunications, factory automation, traffic control, financial trading, medical imaging, and so on, these applications will need to make real-time reliable data transmission. Publish/Subscribe interaction scheme is very suitable for distributed communications system applications. In this paper, based on...

As the most influential catalysts for health care reform in America, the time for nurses to emulate wellness and prevention has never been more critical. By creating healthy habits for ourselves, we flourish as ambassadors of self-care for our patients, families, colleagues, and communities. By taking care of ourselves first, we bring positive energy and vitality to work that positively affects...

This major “probes competing principles that have animated political communities and how we have attempted to translate these into practice. We raise complex fundamental questions as we try to sort out the values and principles that have been most important to us. What does it mean to flourish as a human being? What are the rights and responsibilities of good citizens? What is the best way of l...

Any organization, big or small will always strive to rise to the level of its competence. Competence refers to an organization’s capacity to deploy resources, usually in combination, using organizational processes, to affect a desired end. The competence in turn provides the intelligence to an organization for it to grow and flourish. In this paper, we argue that in order to sustain organizatio...

This article maps the contributions project scholars can make in management journals. Research on projects cuts across disciplinary boundaries, with working institutions different norms, epistemologies, rewards, and selection environments. But this diversity it hard to know where publish. We hope our map of publication landscape—the “V diagram”—will help better understand respect one another’s ...

Natural products have been and continue to be the source and inspiration for a substantial fraction of human therapeutics. Although the pharmaceutical industry has largely turned its back on natural product discovery efforts, such efforts continue to flourish in academia with promising results. Natural products have traditionally been identified from a top-down perspective, but more recently ge...