All GPs will have experienced that uncomfortable feeling when they’ve referred a patient for an expert opinion but the response doesn’t seem quite right. You wonder if important details were missing from referral letter, or maybe became miraculously, temporarily, better in Outpatients. Whatever cause, it leaves you with dilemma: do follow specialist’s advice because this is their area of expert...

Freud's Oedipal theory sees parent-offspring conflict as a within-gender rivalry, whereas most modern evolutionary models interpret it as a gender-blind disagreement about resource allocation. New analyses of family homicides and a critical review of prior evidence do not support the central Freudian claim of a same-sex contingency in parent-offspring antagonism during the Oedipal phase. Severa...

at the dawn of the modern period, the english society was a patriarchal one. in other words, men dominated the society and the family. patriarchal standards of elizabethan age introduced women as figures that should be dominated and controlled. in most of shakespeare's plays the conflict between women and the patriarchal ideology has been shown. women's resistance is the point of disa...

The article addresses the question of how should scientific peers revise their beliefs (if at all) upon recognized disagreement. After presenting basics peer disagreement in sections 1 and 2, we focus, section 3, on a concrete case disagreement, to wit, dispute over evidential status randomized control trials medical practice. examination this motivates idea that some disagreements permit stead...