In a recent article, Gorik Ooms has drawn attention to the normative underpinnings of the politics of global health. We claim that Ooms is indirectly submitting to a liberal conception of politics by framing the politics of global health as a question of individual morality. Drawing on the theoretical works of Chantal Mouffe, we introduce a conflictual concept of the political as an alternative...

In this review, the author discusses how pastoralism, and its many constituent components, is increasingly being recognised as in tune with the changing political and ecological nature of rangelands. He describes ways in which the literature reflects this changing attitude, outlines how rangelands respond to changes in climate and explores the evolving use of livestock resources. In addition, h...

We present a new six-cell Model of Moral Motives that applies a fundamental motivational distinction in psychology to the moral domain. In addition to moral motives focused on the self or another, we propose two group-based moralities, both communal in orientation, but reflecting distinct moral motives (Social Order/Communal Solidarity vs. Social Justice/Communal Responsibility) as well as diff...

The formulation of global health policy is political; and all institutions operating in the global health landscape are political. This is because policies and institutions inevitably represent certain values, reflect particular ideologies, and preferentially serve some interests over others. This may be expressed explicitly and consciously; or implicitly and unconsciously. But it's important t...

Executive Summary ...................................................................... 1 Who Is Data Kinetics?................................................................... 1 Background of the Solution ........................................................... 1 The Proposed Solution .................................................................. 2 Implementing the Proposed Solution....

This paper analyses how the 1950-61 conflict between Portugal and India over the territories that constituted Portuguese India (Goa, Daman and Diu) informed Portugal's relations with the World Health Organization's Regional Office for South East Asia (SEARO). The 'Goa question' determined the way international health policies were actually put into place locally and the meaning with which they ...

In contrast, when ν → 0, the posterior odds are just equation (5) with ν replaced by 0. This means that gene-specific Ws are so different such that moderation is not able to move these gene-specific W at all. Thus, the degree of moderation reflects how similar these gene-specific within group sums of squares are. The more similar they are, the greater degree of moderation our proposed statistic...

Executive Summary ...................................................................... 1 Who Is Data Kinetics?................................................................... 1 Background of the Solution ........................................................... 1 The Proposed Solution .................................................................. 2 Implementing the Proposed Solution....

This programmatic theory paper sketches a conceptual framework that might inspire work in critical Medical Humanities. For this purpose, Kaushik Sunder Rajan's account of biocapital is revisited and discussed in relation to the perspective of a critical neuroscience. Critical neuroscience is an encompassing positioning towards the recent public prominence of the brain and brain-related practice...

The design of complex social systems, such as online communities, requires the consideration of many parameters, a practice at odds with social science research that focuses on the effects of a small set of variables. In this paper, we examine three design decisions—topical breadth, message volume, and discussion moderation—and the trade-offs involved in making these decision. We show how synth...